[lit-ideas] Re: Tuesday Poem

  • From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 08:47:09 -0700

on 6/1/05 5:17 AM, Stan Spiegel at writeforu2@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Here's a poem, a Monday poem, I nearly overlooked in the Times yesterday.
> May 30, 2005
> Over There
> By KEVIN C. JONES
> Carmichael, Calif.

What choices: living at the end point of settled agriculture--supporting a
family by dealing with insurance claims, maintaining stuff, extracting
pleasures from the television, dinner, golf, art, beer--or re-living the
exhilerating closeness of warriors.  I note how unreal the women are in this
account.

David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon  

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