[lit-ideas] Re: SUNDAY POEM

Absolutely perfect.  After a debilitatingly exhausting week, from which I'm
barely now recovering to face whatever chaos and bizarre events I will face
this coming week, I needed that.

Julie Krueger




On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  ON A SUNNY SUNDAY
>
>
> If the fire in the sun
> suddenly went out
> we wouldn't know it
> for eight and a half minutes.
> Lovers would go on loving
> teasing out pleasures from skin,
> angry men would still smash their fists
> into sheetrock only to redouble their fury,
> hagglers would continue to
> haggle down merchants
> just one more dime,
> mourners still to grieve,
> readers go on racing to sentence's end
> as the flow
> of light and heat continued to embrace the earth
> for eight and half minutes.
> Then, of a sudden: darkness total,
> followed by
> rapidly growing cold.
> Everyone standing then,
> shivering in the dark,
> trying to remember
> where they last left the flashlight.
>
> Hell, that's my life now,
> only I don't know how many minutes
> I've got left.  Maybe only eight and a half.
>
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
>

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