BlueIris
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Mon Jul-07-08 07:51 PM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 7/7/08 |
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"Icarus Descending"
I ride my bicycle to work, leaving earlier than usual, so I can go slow. Everything looks normal, the air is fresh, the copper beech trees and the ginkgoes lush in their end-of-summer foliage, the street clean from last night's rain. The men from Public Works have been here lately and patched a few holes. Somebody must have complained, but it wasn't me. The only blemish on my contentment is the strange sensation that somebody very like me is falling through the air right now, close behind me, from a great height falling—having leapt, or been pushed— but anyhow no longer cradling his despair, making light of it, arms outstretched, though his corduroy sleeves cannot undulate like feathered wings in figure eights and he is dropping. How foolish to try to see him. I don't even twist to look, the way a dream just after you have woken has no words for you.
—Carol Edelstein
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Mon Jul-07-08 08:49 PM
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1. But, but...come on. This is so great. |
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What do I have to do, beg?
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Mon Jul-07-08 10:20 PM
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Mon Jul-07-08 10:31 PM
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I'm sorry, I haven't been around much in the last few hours...
But this is a splendid work!
So vivid, so real...
I'm liking it a lot!
Thank you!
:hug:
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Mon Jul-07-08 10:36 PM
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I was hoping you in partcular wouldn't find it too abstract or bizarre.
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Mon Jul-07-08 10:37 PM
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This one feels very much rooted in reality to me!
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Mon Jul-07-08 10:48 PM
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7. The rest of this month is pretty reality-based... |
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Edited on Mon Jul-07-08 10:48 PM by BlueIris
...though the poems may wind up being a little too reality based for some.
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Mon Jul-07-08 10:44 PM
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6. Usually I don't respond to these threads |
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mostly because you said marijuana users are sad, pitiful, massively unhealthy losers... but this poem is just mind-blowingly great.
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