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Mon Nov-10-08 08:16 AM
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The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Mon 11/10/2008) |
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Man Tries to Commit Suicide With a Crossbow
For Thomas Lux
And fails. First, imagine the weapon pointing heavenward beneath his chin. After the trigger’s quick tick, the following: what, for said undead, must have sounded like a rocket’s stratospheric crash, which is to say the arrow just crested the crown (i.e. it got stuck). At which point, the head now a kebob, said undead had the wherewithal to unscrew the skewer from the little lodged missile and pull it out. To walk to the emergency room.
I love to think grace takes strange shapes: the arrow balm to the howl of neurons. To think of that walk beneath the velvet night. Stay with me. Don’t think headache. Think instead: the stars’ ancient light warming his just budding horn.
Ross Gay
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Mon Nov-10-08 08:42 AM
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I have to think about this one for a while.
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Mon Nov-10-08 01:26 PM
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Mon Nov-10-08 11:01 AM
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2. reminds me of a song ...a line of it: |
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As the tracer glides In its graceful arc Send a little prayer out to ya cross the falling dark
don't know why. Just did.
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Mon Nov-10-08 11:17 AM
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Mon Nov-10-08 12:03 PM
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Well, this one is pretty strange!
Interesting imagery too...
Thank you...
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