[lit-ideas] Re: FAVORITE CHRISTMAS CAROL

Thank you, Stan, I'm sure Robert Graves is turning over in his grave knowing 
that you thought he might have written that.  But then wouldn't the Majorca of 
his poetry cause everyone hadn't jumped out a window to do so?

Thanks for the compliment though.

Laura Riding
Memphis





  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Stan Spiegel 
  To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 9:25 PM
  Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: FAVORITE CHRISTMAS CAROL


  Mike -

  Is that you or Robert Graves? Whoever it is, it's awfully good. Thank you for 
the poem. 

  Stan Spiegel
  Portland, ME

  ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Mike Geary 
    To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 7:03 PM
    Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: FAVORITE CHRISTMAS CAROL


    I'm Dreaming Of A White Goddess Christmas


    White Raiser, Red Reaper, Dark Winnower of Grain,
    Mother of Mountains, Dispenser of Rain,
    We offer you the blood of the king
    Your seas we seed with his semen still warm,
    We eat his flesh still fresh from your arms.

    Whether God is other people
    Or God is Other, people.
    Matters not to the Steeple,
    Where only your tithing can lessen God's writhing
    on the cross, or so sayeth the Boss.

    Saturnalia celebrated the killing of the King,
    a sacrifice that caused the return of Spring,
    now we celebrate the birth of one who will bring
    meaning to our death.
    But I'm not holding my breath. 



    Robert Graves
    from beyond the grave.

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