The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Wed 3/4/2009)

[RetroLounge]

Tear it Down

We find out the heart only by dismantling what
the heart knows. By redefining the morning,
we find a morning that comes just after darkness.
We can break through marriage into marriage.
By insisting on love, we spoil it, get beyond
affection and wade mouth-deep into love.
We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.
But going back toward childhood will not help.
The village is not better than Pittsburgh.
Only Pittsburgh is more than Pittsburgh.
Rome is better than Rome in the same way the sound
of raccoon tongues licking the inside walls
of the garbage tub is more then the stir
of them in the muck of the garbage. Love is not
enough. We die and are put in the earth forever.
We should insist while there is still time. We must
eat through the wildness of her sweet body already
in our bed to reach the body within that body.

Jack Gilbert

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RL

[blueraven95]

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[RetroLounge]

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[Chorophyll]

2. Wow!

"Rome is better than Rome in the same way the sound
of raccoon tongues licking the inside walls
of the garbage tub is more then the stir
of them in the muck of the garbage."

That is the shit.

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[RetroLounge]

6. I know, hey?

Pretty amazing shit, too...

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RL

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. Ok...I am weird

this one cracked me up :rofl:

[RetroLounge]

7. okay...

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RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear Retro...

Now, this is beautiful...

The last bit, especially:

Love is not
enough. We die and are put in the earth forever.
We should insist while there is still time. We must
eat through the wildness of her sweet body already
in our bed to reach the body within that body.

I'm loving this one!

Thank you...

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[RetroLounge]

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RL

[bicentennial_baby]

9. Love it...

:loveya:

[RetroLounge]

10. ...

:loveya:

RL