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3 Poems - By John Birkbeck 2 Poems - By Tom Blessing |
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HE HERMIT KING He sits in his musty chamber with a dog for unconditional love, a pair of slatterns for lust, goats for milk and cheeses, slaves to manage the household, and more slaves to tend the fields and forests, and to gather grapes to press into wine; and twelve disciples to ensure his posterity, courtiers to flatter him-- and scribes to take down his tortured thoughts and to endure his capricious tantrums which he gathers into volumes and scatters to the four winds, and thus to the far ends of the world; he wants fame only on paper and not to shine in celebrity. THE KLEIN JAR Myself loop-legging aimless streets and faceless buildings facing me; the surface of one is the inside of the outside of another one next to it like some sort of Picasso land come to life. A woman's voice sings somewhere inside or outside-- her rich contralto irretainable in my ears, ingesting the harmonics of the melody heard and seen and felt from inside out. COMEDIAN A funny man or a clown is a man who is mostly pissed off, a magnet for trouble not of his own making. The worst things happen to the wrong people by surprise by no justice; evil is rewarded and good is despised as weakness. The comedian cries in solitude so as not to become narcotised by mere mirth. - John Birkbeck 2001
- Tom Blessing 2001 |
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