[lit-ideas] Re: An Idle Singing
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 20:53:11 +0100
Actually, would you mind if this gets posted elsewhere ? Also, maybe you
could give it a title. :)
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Very good. O.K.
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> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:29 AM, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
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>> “An idle singer for an empty day”
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>> Sure! But also dizzy from
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>> Watching movies of war and
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>> Differences between the one
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>> That sent me to one and the
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>> Current mechanized strangeness
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>> Of Middle-Eastern combat.
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>> “Would I still have gone?” gave me
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>> A headache – had I stayed I could
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>> Imagine Vietnam as a Sergeant
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>> But not loaded with so much
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>> Gear I needed a Humvee to haul
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>> Me to the battleground. Was I
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>> Conditioned for a few wars only?
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>> And why was Ezra Pound so astute
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>> About poetry and so inept
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>> Politically, praising Mussolini,
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>> Adolph Hitler and himself above
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>> All to those who would listen and did
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>> In dwindling numbers till he died,
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>> Or was he merely crazy as many believe?
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>> The mountain through my window
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>> Is turning green as it does this time
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>> Each year. Susan was up late listening
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>> To her sister while I watched and
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>> Listened to strange songs sung in
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>> Humvees by Marines who occasionally
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>> Stopped to shoot large numbers of Iraqis.
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