[lit-ideas] Re: Poem
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:22:30 -0800
Should there not be some addendum to, I wonder, or coda on, birth
certificates? Lawyers could work on proper language, but the gist
might be, "I, Dad, promise to watch."
I have done my share, hooraying when they left the airplane (or was
it a boat?) behind and gobbled solid foods. I leaped with the first
good flush. I have held my breath through the sword dance and seen
ghillies come sadly undone.
Now my spectating days are nearly run. My eyes will not glaze over,
or glisten. Take down tomorrow therefore, that old eye chart, and
teach me how to listen.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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