[lit-ideas] Re: 1968

  • From: "Steve Chilson" <stevechilson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 07:07:43 +0000

thanks, Eric, for having the good mind not to respond with the fecking
Dorothy Parker bit.  And an original even better.  Dank je wel.


On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 01:27:55 -0500, "Eric Yost"
<eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>  >>Drowning yourself is no picnic.
> 
> 
> 
>         Suicides
> 
> People on the beach see us
> warped beneath water's prism:
> a fading green and slight
> is the view drowned in time.
> 
> We are a host of waves
> bubbles and a push of foam
> tremor in a silent tide.
> 
> The moon rises over hiss
> of grey-brown beaches to
> silver as an afterthought.
> 
> When the lulled sun
> lies swollen with gulls,
> tourists walk the jetty to gather
> a treasure of shells.
> 
> - Eric Yost
> 
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