Posted by kid_A on March 2, 2002, at 19:49:13
ELEGY II
when the trees have given up
their leaves, and rain can not
soak the groundwhen the presidents have all
been shot, replaced with
beautiful talking headswhen all the mothers have
drowned their babies, and stuck
their heads inside the ovenwhen the words have all been said
and there are no words and
nothing can be namedwhen the cities have lost their
people, and the gates have fallen
and no can be born in Jordanwhen all the bombs have been
detonated, each one loving like
a mother, smother and kisswhen culture is smashed into
the ground like heat, and we all
gape like ignorant cavemenwhen S. has left her lantern and
shot through the tunnel to the
light on the other sidewhen the oceans, God's gift,
rise and fall, rise and fall
and rise and fall awaywhen the mountains have crumbled
and the Himalayans have melted into
gold ingots for the toothwhen all the ghosts have risen
in their winding sheets and flew
up into the sky as mockingbirdswhen the new gods have become
old and we have lost our language
as we murmur dumb as rockswhen all the animals gain voices
and float on the turtle's back
to a final feast on the cloudswhen the sun has grown fat as
a tick, and rolls out it's
belly, lapping up the earthwhen our stars turn off, one by
one, God's nightlites, fireflies
that died in the jar overnightwhen space stretches out like a
whore and time crawls to a halt
and memory is destroyedwhen the only thing is no thing
and you couldn't laugh even if
you wanted towhen it can't finish, when it
can't go on, when it as has
shuffled of it's mortal coili will still love you, would
die for you, giving you my love
like a lifeeven though, you do not care,
i am a little brat, just bones
now, a totem of sortscan't you see! can't you see!
i was made for you, like a pretty
dress, put it on like a shroudand we will smash together, and
be one, and never, ever talk
of poetry again.
poster:kid_A
thread:19104
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20020223/msgs/19104.html