BlueIris
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Thu Apr-10-08 03:34 PM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 4/10/08 |
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"Tours"
A girl on the stairs listens to her father Beat up her mother. Doors bang. She comes down in her nightgown.
The piano stands there in the dark Like a boy with an orchid.
She plays what she can Then turns the lamp on.
Her mother's music is spread out On the floor like brochures.
She hears her father Running through the leaves.
The last black key She presses stays down, makes no sound, Someone putting their tongue where their tooth had been.
—C.D. Wright
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Westegg
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Thu Apr-10-08 03:58 PM
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...That's the best poem I've read in '08.
"The piano stands there in the dark Like a boy with an orchid."
Holy shit. That's poetry.
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BlueIris
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Thu Apr-10-08 04:34 PM
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And I, too, think this poem is grand.
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Thu Apr-10-08 04:43 PM
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Heartbreakingly beautiful....
Thank you!
:hug:
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Thu Apr-10-08 05:55 PM
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Thu Apr-10-08 04:53 PM
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The last black key She presses stays down, makes no sound, Someone putting their tongue where their tooth had been.
damn...
RL
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Thu Apr-10-08 05:56 PM
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6. It is impressive, isn't it? |
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In a dark, horrifying way.
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