[lit-ideas] Re: Wives
- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 14:25:48 -0600
Well, done, Lawrence.
On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> My first wife was afraid
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> To take the tiller while I changed
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> Sails. My second found it a delight
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> To be in the storm if only
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> For a short time and climb
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> Mountains, struggling to the top
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> Despite the wasting’s incursions.
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> Both preferred to stay on shore
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> While I with spear and other gear
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> Struggled through the surf,
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> The first afraid, the second
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> Unwilling to take another’s life.
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> The first passed long ago.
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> The second struggles to read
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> With her one good eye.
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> I hoped to bend them to my
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> Will but abdicated the actuality.
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> They filled their own imaginations
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> With forms I never clearly knew;
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> Lending Susan my arm now
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> I’m repeatedly dazzled.
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