richardthe23rd ([info]richardthe23rd) wrote,
@ 2008-04-04 10:42:00
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Current mood: complacent
Current music:Eric Clapton, "Key to the Highway"

Oh My God! You Smoked Billy Collins!
I saw you stop on the porch
for a last drag of your cigarette
in that same amount of time
you could easily have listened to
another verse

instead you savored the sweet fragrance
of the plantation hands
perspiring in the fields
and read the lines
which the sun wrote
slowly and painstakingly
upon the drying leaves

(For Stephanie, with thanks for dinner)


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[info]alces2
2008-04-04 05:08 pm UTC (link)
Did you write this? Whoever wrote it, I like it.

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[info]richardthe23rd
2008-04-04 06:35 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, that was me. As Billy Collins says (or writes/reads, whatever), "The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry."

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