[lit-ideas] Re: Wives
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 07:58:12 +0900
Well done, indeed.
John
Sent from my iPad
> On 2014/12/15, at 5:25, Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Well, done, Lawrence.
>
>
>> On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Lawrence Helm
>> <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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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