The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sat 4/15/06)

[RetroLounge]

Fuck

There are people who will tell you
that using the word fuck in a poem
indicates a serious lapse
of taste, or imagination,

or both. It's vulgar,
indecorous, an obscenity
that crashes down like an anvil
falling through a skylight

to land on a restaurant table,
on the white linen, the cut-glass vase of lilacs.
But if you were sitting
over coffee when the metal

hit your saucer like a missile,
wouldn't that be the first thing
you'd say? Wouldn't you leap back
shouting, or at least thinking it,

over and over, bell-note riotously clanging
in the church of your brain
while the solicitous waiter
led you away, wouldn't you prop

your shaking elbows on the bar
and order your first drink in months,
telling yourself you were lucky
to be alive? And if you wouldn't

say anything but Mercy or Oh my
or Land sakes, well then
I don't want to know you anyway
and I don't give a fuck what you think

of my poem. The world is divided
into those whose opinions matter
and those who will never have
a clue, and if you knew

which one you were I could talk
to you, and tell you that sometimes
there's only one word that means
what you need it to mean, the way

there's only one person
when you first fall in love,
or one infant's cry that calls forth
the burning milk, one name

that you pray to when prayer
is what's left to you. I'm saying
in the beginning was the word
and it was good, it meant one human

entering another and it's still
what I love, the word made
flesh. Fuck me, I say to the one
whose lovely body I want close,

and as we fuck I know it's holy,
a psalm, a hymn, a hammer
ringing down on an anvil,
forging a whole new world.

Kim Addonizio

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RL

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[GOPisEvil]

1. That is a fantastic poem!

"The world is divided
into those whose opinions matter
and those who will never have
a clue,..."

That is SO true. Who cares what people who don't matter think?

Also, California Peggy wouldn't be her if she didn't drop an f-bomb now and then. I don't think I'd like her as much if she didn't.

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

5. Funny, I thought of CP when I found this poem

:hi:

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. My dear RetroLounge........

Thank you.......:blush:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. My dear Evil.......

Your comments mean more than I can possibly express.......

Thank you for them! :blush:

[yvr girl]

2. You had a long night didn't you

:hug:

[RetroLounge]

4. Sent you a message on MySpace about it...

:hi:

RL

[yvr girl]

8. ...

and I replied.

[xchrom]

3. ...

And if you wouldn't
say anything but Mercy or Oh my
or Land sakes, well then
I don't want to know you anyway
and I don't give a fuck what you think

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

6. Good morning...

:hi:

RL

[xchrom]

7. any plans for the weekend?

[RetroLounge]

9. Nope. Got kids today.

Gonna hang out and enjoy the weather...

You?

RL

[yvr girl]

10. That sounds like a plan to me

hanging out with the kids is the plan.

[xchrom]

11. eh -- it's raining here again --

and i'm pretty much a 24/7 caretaker for my dad.

so, i get out some -- but i really have to plan for that.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. My dear RetroLounge........

There is much strength, and steel in this lovely poem.....

I know many are shocked when I use the word Fuck......

But it does speak to me, very strongly, of my emotional state!

This poem made me cry, today.....when I read it out loud......

It struck me close to where I currently live, and love.......

Thank you......

:loveya: :hug:

[RetroLounge]

15. Kick

Fucking Kick... :D

:kick:

RL

[yvr girl]

16. I don't think you should kick

when you fuck.

[RetroLounge]

18. Well, not if someone is holding my legs down...

:rofl:

RL

[wildhorses]

17. fucking A......well said

and damn !!! I thought of CalPeg, too:toast:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. My reputation precedes me, I see!

Thank you, my dear wildhorses! :blush: