[lit-ideas] SUNDAY POEM
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:31:15 -0500
LIFE IS LIKE AN ONION
but not a Vidalia, which I love, or a Walla Walla
which is almost as good,
but just an ordinary onion, yes,
that's what life is like
an ordinary onion that makes you cry when you open it up.
Never mind the metaphor of layer upon layer
opening onto nothing there,
that's sophomoric,
what I mean is that life is like a friend
breaking down and crying in heaves
while you hold her
or him
and everything is there,
everything
Mike Geary
Memphis
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