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Sun Sep-16-07 06:51 AM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poem Thread, 9/16/07 |
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Edited on Sun Sep-16-07 06:53 AM by BlueIris
"Starvation"
Rain, tobacco juice, spit from the sky shatters against your body, as you push the pane of glass through the mud. The white oak frame of the house shakes when I slam the door and stand on the porch, fanning myself with a piece of cardboard, cut in the shape of a ham.
There's a pot of air on the stove. You drove seventy miles, paid for that glass, and I can’t remember the last good meal I had, but bring it up here. I'll help you. I'm not angry. We'll paint the sun on it from the inside, so if we die some night, a light will still be on. It's hell to starve in the dark. I don't know why. I'm just your woman, like you, crazy to lose all I've got. It's rotton, you know, rotten. The table's set. What time is it? Wash your hands first. You're late.
—Ai
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Sun Sep-16-07 07:21 AM
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stark.
ai?
really like this one. what year was it written?
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Sun Sep-16-07 07:33 AM
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3. Written? I don't know. It was published in Ai's second book, "Killing Floor," in 1979. |
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The year I was born (sigh; how appropriate).
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Sun Sep-16-07 07:34 AM
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4. More information about the author (one of my favorite poets ever): |
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Sun Sep-16-07 07:48 AM
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6. thanks for the link -- |
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all, at one time or another starve in the dark.
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Sun Sep-16-07 07:35 AM
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5. Yep. Because we're "crazy to lose" all we've got. |
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