[lit-ideas] Re: SUNDAY POEM

JK:
>>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.<<

Assuming you're being sardonic, all I can say is, Sorry, babe.  : )  


Mike Geary
Memphis



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Julie Krueger 
  To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 9:26 PM
  Subject: [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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