[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Poem, with a daughter currently visiting Israel
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 23:56:02 -0800
here's an experience
i was having an evening beer and listening to beethoven a deutsche
gramaphone recording
i put the beer down on a table i made from the trunk of a birch
which table is one of my proudest pieces of work
simply because i am just not that good with wood
i call it a t table because i chainsawed into the top a letter t and
filled this with semi-precious stones
i like to stroke the top when i'm reading
this is a family trait
so anyway i looked carefully where i was putting that beer down
as one does
glasses have been seen to slide from some of the bumpier parts of
this surface
suddenly
i noticed a new round hole where no round hole had been before and in
said tunnel there was a head peering
up me in an insecty manner as if to say well
what are you going to do about me having had some of your table for
lunch
i called out to the household
household
bring me a slim sharp knife quickly with which i can inflict some
destruction
and when it came i foolishly plunged that same sharp knife into the
beast's head
slicing it in half
thus diminishing its capacity for harm then
i
filled the hole with rubbing alcohol
sealed it up with glue and cork
and prayed to all the wood spirits i could think of that that beast
had mostly been male
or infertile
hoped as i hopped about the room wailing like an ahab
praying that said ex-termite were a waif or stray blown out of place
on the westerly wind
while the cats were being let in
like you or anyone i sensible i want no harm to come to anyone or thing
but i really don't want to have to tent or bomb our house
when push comes to shove i am committed to a specist view that
humans must have some priority everywhere
on this particular bus
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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