[lit-ideas] Noticing TS Eliot in passing

From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Lit-Ideas " <Lit-Ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 08:56:15 -0800

            

 

            The philosopher Eliot wondered if he dared

            At an age when I chose to join the Marines,       

            Neither the subject of modern poetry 

            One would think perhaps but decisively

            Present in the hand that brandished the pen

            Regardless of the consequences. 

            Perhaps it's a matter of muscled 

 

            Stamina or the withheld strength 

            Of his mother.  Mine though strong

            Enough for my brother hadn't power

            Enough for the reins or if she did 

            I never noticed behaving as though

            I could choose my own course within

            Limitations I didn't always see.

 

            And now not seventeen but eighty

            I've no wish to eat a peach

            Or wear my trousers rolled

            Seeing instead a red sky

            From my window and rushing

            To make Susan breakfast

            Before the day is fully upon her.

            



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[lit-ideas] Noticing TS Eliot in passing

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