The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Mon 2/6/06)

[RetroLounge]

"To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage"

"The hot night makes us keep our bedroom windows open.
Our magnolia blossoms. Life begins to happen.
My hopped up husband drops his home disputes,
and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes,
free-lancing out along the razor's edge.
This screwball might kill his wife, then take the pledge.
Oh the monotonous meanness of his lust. . .
It's the injustice . . . he is so unjust--
whiskey-blind, swaggering home at five.
My only thought is how to keep alive.
What makes him tick? Each night now I tie
ten dollars and his car key to my thigh. . . .
Gored by the climacteric of his want,
he stalls above me like an elephant."

Robert Lowell

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RL

[KitchenWitch]

1. Ouch!

:cry:

[yvr girl]

2. written by a man...interesting

The first two lines could belong to a very different poem...hot nights can be a good thing.

[miss_american_pie]

3. Yikes

Thank heaven for divorce.

[RetroLounge]

4. kick

Robert lowell was requested...

Ouch is right.

RL

[WritingIsMyReligion]

5. Yowza! Does THAT ever cut true, even to a young'un!

Yet another wondrous pick by RL, the master of DU prose....

;) ;) :thumbsup:

[RetroLounge]

8. Hardly a master

just a student still learning...

:hi:

RL

[xchrom]

6. you did it!

and one of my favorites.

wonderful stuff -- just wonderful -- the rhyme and the rythm -- but he loses none of the intimacy the poem hits on.

that unyielding glimpse inside...

[RetroLounge]

7. Thanks for the suggestion...

:hi:

RL