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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-21-07 08:18 AM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 11/21/07
"ABC"

Any body can die, evidently. Few
Go happily, irradiating joy,

Knowledge, love. Many
Need oblivion, painkillers,
Quickest respite.
Sweet time unafflicted,
Various world:

X=your zenith.

—Robert Pinksy
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-21-07 08:32 AM
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1. I have seen this one before...
:D
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-21-07 08:43 AM
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2. Yeah, being a big Pinsky fan, I've snatched up a few of his more obscure verses over the years.
This is one of my favorite lesser-known Pinsky poems, which was read by Dustin Hoffman on an episode of Charlie Rose, which I saw in the summer of '99.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-21-07 10:13 PM
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3. Kick.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-21-07 10:44 PM
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4. This ain't poetry, is it. I thought not!1
Augustus. Bricks to marble.
Time to abdicate.
He wears a toga brooch-button
saying, "Inconvenient."
Few entourage, three-four,
cross Rome afoot, no guard.

I watch him at the wharf's edge
small, in the bright opening
of the cavernous dark roof.
facing the anchored barque.

I'm stunned, he steps over the edge
and reverse-swan-dives,
feet first and together.
They follow him.

Romans scared of the sea, ha ha,
not he.
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