[lit-ideas] Re: New Poems For A New Year

  • From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:31:52 -0500

Me, too (she said resoundingly, if a little late).
All the best people have always been outliers.

This comes to mind...somewhat understandably...somewhat mysteriously:

There is a mystery that even God cannot fathom, nor can he give the law of it on two stone tablets. He cannot speak what there are no words for; he needs divers to dive into it; he needs wrestlers to wrestle with it, singers to sing it, lovers to love it. He cannot deal with it alone, he must find helpers, and for this does he blind some and maim others. --Russell Hoban (Pilgermann)



Walter C. Okshevsky wrote:
Quoting carol kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxxx>:

When I read these sentiments, and others about women as other, l
am convinced that I belong to a third sex.

Carol


Me too.

(Doubly so as we've just returned from seeing *Nine* (oy!) But Nicole made it
reasonably bearable and at times pleasurable.
Avatar forever,

Walter





On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 WOMEN (AS THE SAYING GOES)


I like women.
Women are interesting.
They really are.
Even though most of them could take or leave sports.
Still women are -- who they are.

Men, however, they're the guys!
Oh, give me some men who are stout-hearted men,
who will fight for the rights they adore.
Men are not women.
Men are more like manly types,
Most of them anyway.
Men are tough and they like to fight.
And men are not averse to killing if necessary.
I mean like if God needs a killing done (or a President, or a charismatic
leader or whoever) then call on a man.
Men know what matters.

What do women know.
I don't know.
I'm not a woman.
Still, I like women.
Women are interesting.
They seem to be engineered for my wanting them.
They seem to be everything I've ever wanted and am willing to sacrifice
everything for.
For a while.
Then it's back to business.
Which is what men are for.
God is in his heaven
and all is right with the world.

Happy New Tear,
Mike Geary
Memphis





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