Whoops. Replied to the wrong email. Sorry.
Ken
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Ken Wolman http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com/
"All writers are hunters, and parents are the most available prey."
--Francine du Plessix Gray
On Nov 13, 2010, at 7:29 PM, Ken Wolman wrote:
> Cool. You got a phone number that preferred?
>
> Ken
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> Ken Wolman http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com/
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> "All writers are hunters, and parents are the most available prey."
> --Francine du Plessix Gray
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> On Nov 13, 2010, at 6:36 PM, Ken Wolman wrote:
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>> WEDDING DAY LAMENT
>>
>> What if our children, overcoming reason,
>> take it into their heads to violate sense
>> and marry?
>>
>> They will forget the lessons of their parents' marriage:
>> vituperation, anger, the endless revenge that
>> works itself out in nothing but money
>> even when there isn't any.
>>
>> i can barely remember her face
>> but can recall the faces of those who came
>> before and those who came during and after,
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>> But I pay only for her.
>>
>> Will I have to have the first dance
>> with her? Can either of us stand it,
>> to touch as though touch were
>> some sort of penance,
>> of skin-blistering forgiveness
>> albeit momentary,
>>
>> or will it be a stuff-armed
>> ritual tango surrounded
>> by swirling bridal gowns
>> and formals, neither of us
>> daring to look at the other
>>
>> the ultimate human sacrifice,
>> the DJ playing "Paint It Black"
>> as we slide on grease
>> across the floor?
>>
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>> Ken Wolman http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com/
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>> "All writers are hunters, and parents are the most available prey."
>> --Francine du Plessix Gray
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