[lit-ideas] Re: SUNDAY POEM
- From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 02:09:13 -0500
Julie Krueger
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
> *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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