The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Mon 11/10/2008)

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Man Tries to Commit Suicide With a Crossbow

          For Thomas Lux

And fails. First, imagine the weapon
pointing heavenward beneath his chin. After the trigger’s
quick tick, the following: what, for said
undead, must have sounded like a rocket’s stratospheric crash,
which is to say the arrow just
crested the crown (i.e. it got stuck). At which point, the head
now a kebob, said undead had
the wherewithal to unscrew the skewer
from the little lodged missile and pull it out. To walk
to the emergency room.

I love to think
grace takes strange shapes: the arrow
balm to the howl of neurons.
To think of that walk beneath the velvet night.
Stay with me. Don’t think
headache. Think
instead: the stars’ ancient light warming
his just budding horn.

Ross Gay

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[Chorophyll]

1. Ouch.

I have to think about this one for a while.

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[RetroLounge]

6. Painful...

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[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. reminds me of a song ...a line of it:

As the tracer glides
In its graceful arc
Send a little prayer out to ya
cross the falling dark


don't know why. Just did.


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7. ...

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[YankeyMCC]

3. hey nt

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8. hey

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[blueraven95]

4. morning, Retro

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9. Afternoon

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear Retro!

Well, this one is pretty strange!

Interesting imagery too...

Thank you...

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10. ...

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[BlueIris]

11. Funny. nt

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12. Hello you!

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