[lit-ideas] Re: Rain
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:02:46 +0900
Just struck me. It has been a week since we heard from Lawrence.
Do hope all is well.
John
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 8:53 AM, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Were we alone
> Just these few of us
> Waiting for Godot
> It might be right
> to mourn the end
> of dialogue
>
> To stay at a bar
> Where the talk
> has turned rancid
> Filled with posturing
> and venom
>
> No need to grieve
> dear friends
> The world is large
> There is much to learn
> Spam filters
> for everything else
>
> John
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 2015/03/03, at 3:18, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> It's been raining for two days
>
> In San Jacinto - strangely --
>
> In the midst of drought --
>
> Sirens remind the rest
>
> Of us we don't know
>
> How to drive on streets
>
> Wet and slippery; which
>
>
>
> Is true of any reductionist
>
> Point of view: mere laziness!
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> We could know if we
>
> Looked out and thought,
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> But we don't and instead
>
> Glory in laughter-producing
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> Words, laughter to end
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> Dialogue, to stop further
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> Thought, settling itself
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> Back in self-contained
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> Contentment, a pigeon
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> Banking in light rain
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> Against a gray sky
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> And vanishing cry.
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