[lit-ideas] Re: Saturday Poem
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:06:48 -0800
while i wait for the dishes to be done--
i cooked,
mussels in wine sauce, followed by sausages, if you must know--
i'm trying to recall paris
how distant it now seems
what i most want to recount is the moment when we passed the ministry
of milk
or at least an edifice
that caused me to ask the taxi driver if some cows
grazed
maybe on a permitted form of euro turf
moving from room to room
carefully--you know cows--
avoiding desks of those who properly and with taste
furnish
reports
a hundred head euro herd populating the second and upper floors--
if you've seen the size of some french elevators you'll appreciate the
joke--
escaped from butter mountain
eluding interpol
running from sadness and the red wine lake
all this is hard to say in french
so i was proud
that it got
done
the taxi driver laughed
contravening possibly
a bevy of union rules
about fair rates
and views
which can only be
expressed
slowly
like milk
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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