[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Poem
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 21:45:17 -0800
As easy as a walk in the park
It is hard
to see how vulnerable John Lennon was
just before he got shot.
Annie Liebovitz caught the boy,
naked,
curling like a landed anchovy,
clutching his wife.
Years later, it is she,
at the opening of the winter games,
wrapped in white,
further dwarfed by kitsch,
who reads haltingly
from his imagination.
My mind flits to the
nice guy at the tennis shop,
come from his friend's death,
who offers me sixty dollars off
and
says he wants me to be happy with the price.
So I try.
Given this,
when I go to throw toys
for my collie in the park,
I note well
how Olympic is his joy,
how lifelike his art.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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