[lit-ideas] Contra Lowell

From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Lit-Ideas " <Lit-Ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 07:36:52 -0800

            

 

            Lowell weighed two-hundred.  Three solid years

            Of weights took me to only one-eighty-seven,

            But aside from his modes I might

            Be the stronger: less influenced 

            By family, no noblesse oblige

            But entering the Marine Corps

            While he objected conscientiously --

            

            No doubt frightening more

            But I never mastered madness

            Nor drinking nor smoking incessantly

            And my heart is still sound

            While his gave out in a New York taxi;

            Yet he to hear him was a professional

            While I he would say am an amateur:

 

            Quite right.  Writing at night

            Because I like to but not needing

            To push my words upon a disinterested

            World or influence a coterie

            Of suicidal children taking classes

            Under my care.  Caring will destroy

            The joy of writing for those not Lowell.



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