[lit-ideas] Re: Allegro a'la Geary
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:29:47 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
I wonder that this wasn't named Poem Without the Kind Ones. Or Song of Life:
Nasty, Brutish, Sneering and Judgmental.
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From: Eric Yost <NYCEric@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sep 13, 2004 1:10 AM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Allegro a'la Geary
The Kind Ones
Sing the broom handle homeless dance.
cardboard street shuffle past chance
romance of flesh near the fish market
park it and go hobo hangout tango pager
street corner loner prophet seer ranger
the spare-changer dime-dancing in
a rotten barge, the doorman-at-large,
the urban survivalist revivalist tranced
in the park in the street after dark --
army on neglected stairs occupying everywhere --
Sing if you feel like singing of the void stare
the matted hair the black shirt
that was green, the flat clacks that
were shoes. It's no news. It's no fame.
It's not a question of blame, the blasted
life strife sandwich wagon hourly coffee
cup clinker sinking the smell the sour
smell the sour smell loss gives to sweat,
staggering or collapsed annoying madman
who is our brother mother our priest
we who are the least in our suits and
baggy Day-Glo jobs. Sing them all
broken untended mendicant tribes,
those generous souls, the kind ones who co-opt us,
we the lost and crafty do-as-you're-tolders.
Praise them all for adopting us, for suffering us.
Praise them for showing us our own
clenched disgraces of faces.
(c)1999
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