[lit-ideas] Re: Allegro a'la Geary
- From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 02:58:04 -0700
Dylan Yost!
>ck
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From: "Eric Yost" <NYCEric@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 10:10 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Allegro a'la Geary
> The Kind Ones
>
> Sing the broom handle homeless dance.
> cardboard street shuffle past chance
> romance of flesh near the fish market
> park it and go hobo hangout tango pager
> street corner loner prophet seer ranger
> the spare-changer dime-dancing in
> a rotten barge, the doorman-at-large,
> the urban survivalist revivalist tranced
> in the park in the street after dark --
> army on neglected stairs occupying everywhere --
> Sing if you feel like singing of the void stare
> the matted hair the black shirt
> that was green, the flat clacks that
> were shoes. It's no news. It's no fame.
> It's not a question of blame, the blasted
> life strife sandwich wagon hourly coffee
> cup clinker sinking the smell the sour
> smell the sour smell loss gives to sweat,
> staggering or collapsed annoying madman
> who is our brother mother our priest
> we who are the least in our suits and
> baggy Day-Glo jobs. Sing them all
> broken untended mendicant tribes,
> those generous souls, the kind ones who co-opt us,
> we the lost and crafty do-as-you're-tolders.
> Praise them all for adopting us, for suffering us.
> Praise them for showing us our own
> clenched disgraces of faces.
>
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> (c)1999
>
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