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Poetry Magnum Opus

October 14, 1943


dedalus

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Streamalingaling

 

Polly Fawcett

 

Folly Faucet

 

gnashes

 

operatic teeth

 

and makes us think

 

of mashed potatoes

 

and spam and nylons

 

and wine bottles

 

all along the tables

 

all along the floor

 

and the gramophone

 

sings Vera Lynn

 

drifting, lingering

 

among the lovely

 

crinkly smiles of wartime,

 

dark eyes under bruises

 

shiny skin grafts

 

missing limbs

 

the desperate gaiety

 

of troubled young women.

Drown your sorrows in drink, by all means, but the real sorrows can swim

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Good sounding stuff, papa. But why the double spacing. All it does is make it harder to read/grasp due to scrolling.

 

waxwings, a.k.a. ikaros

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Excellent work, Brendan. As usual, your work transports me to another time and place. In this one, I enjoyed the captured moment(s), the thoughts that must have filled the minds of those immersed in the events of that fateful day. I like the short line construction and the layout.

 

Tony

Here is a link to an index of my works on this site: tonyv's Member Archive topic

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