[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Poem
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:35:43 -0800
i would call those who hunt the bard to duck
and with a bit of luck they'll not be hit by
the cunning hero of this movie
disguiséd master of monetary husbandry
who with a quick sniff of the armpits
slips into spandex-elbowed jacket
at morn to go commuting off at speed
bid him tackle those professional tasks higher
above our wing-shooting scatter
and learn to dodge where countrymen endeavor
to bring home pennant streaks of bacon
advertising to one another all the while
where so e'er this arrow may land
there by law and code and custom
will you be entered if not into the drawing
surely into that leonardo fresco which follows
with big arms
marry and before the grand prize resurrection
find you a method
rhythmic and quick with basis points gain
to keep the storm-blasted tumping romping
on through infinitum
til that great landlord in the sky
calls gentlemen please time
and we with scant original justification
and sin
are delivered from existence
with fifty cents and coffee
to come implausibly
a throng nursing warmth through the kissing gate
to gather after all the sales are done
and stand blowing up our nails
with hounds and hares and hands
wondering at home plate
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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