[lit-ideas] Re: On the prospect of World Peace
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 08:45:53 -0500
LAWRENCE IN LOVE
The title of this poem
doesn't really fit,
I just like the sound of it,
Reason enough for me.
This poem is actually all about me,
(tee hee, tee hee).
And though it's true (all too, all too),
that I have not accomplished much
in the way of success and such
still when I go, of me you'll say
before he died he got himself versified,
even if it was only Lawrence's way,
of saying what Cheney to Lehey did say.
Mike Geary
Memphis
----- Original Message -----
From: Lawrence Helm
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 12:47 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: On the prospect of World Peace
Flatulence and Smoke
I invoked Barnett and demand explain him.
But I'll not all though I might if you hung
On every word instead of reading every third
Or none at all. I would need a reason of my own
Which I don't have. Neither you nor Irene,
Good night, read more than a sentence
On each page; so your righteous indignation
Is mere flatulence and smoke. Mere
Flatulence and smoke, and beyond that
I've covered recently all that you ask within your post
Which you could have read if you read more
Than a sentence on each page; so your righteous
Indignation is mere flatulence and smoke.
What are you smoking that obscures your
Vision so you read no more than a sentence
On each page? You say you state it plainly,
But I've stated plainer still that your righteous
Indignation is mere flatulence and smoke.
And as to Mike he seeks a crucifixion
Thinking greater love hath no man than
To be the greatest wag, and only be
Prevented by grace from the hangman's
Rope or the chair or the axe, but
Everyone could see it wasn't him, that
A false confession entered in his folder
Was a shining on his tab, and
His name could glisten on to the
The settling of contentions on his way.
Then you ask "can humans live in peace?"
Does peace exist in the notes you write,
Or in those of Irene? Is your peace hers?
The world can live in peace, I am quite sure,
When the pacifists and leftists give up war.
Lawrence
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