[lit-ideas] SUNDAY POEM

LIFE IS LIKE AN ONION

but not a Vidalia, which I love, or a Walla Walla
which is almost as good,
but just an ordinary onion, yes,
that's what life is like
an ordinary onion that makes you cry when you open it up.
Never mind the metaphor of layer upon layer
opening onto nothing there,
that's sophomoric,
what I mean is that life is like a friend 
breaking down and crying in heaves 
while you hold her
or him
and everything is there,
everything

Mike Geary
Memphis

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