[lit-ideas] Re: SOMEDAY'S POEM
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:12:58 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
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From: Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Jul 18, 2004 1:40 PM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] SOMEDAY'S POEM
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A JUNG MAN
-- It was a great day for European culture, he said, when you made up your
mind to swear in yellow.
I hear Eliot in the above lines. Or Joyce, but not Portrait I don't think but
I haven't read either in years. Finegan's Wake maybe? Don't make me spend
hours looking. This poem is so cool.
De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine
Watch your step as you descend the depths.
A key, a lock, a life in hock --
things aren't always what they seem,
you've got to analyze your dream.
A troll, a witch, a winged mare,
they tell you what's really there.
We walk about, blindfolded I's,
closed against the archetypos' surprise.
Once I had a dream that I was but a tongue.
A tongue without a mouth, like a north without a south,
like a man without a houth
to lisp in.
I would flutter like an aspen
when I tried to speak.
Men called me a freak
said that my physique
left something to be desired.
But women got all fired
up and they retired
to their boudoir with me.
I won't tell you what happened nextly.
You'll have to read it intertextly.
Hello yellow jello.
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