Re: Two Little Things

[email protected] (Will-Dockery)
Newsgroups alt.arts.poetry.comments
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> What Rhyme is it? wrote:
> "Dale Houstman" <dmh7> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> 
>> _________________
>> 
>> Two Little Things
>> _________________
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 1.
>> 
>> Night, a letter, only
>> its sans serif peak encased
>> in pale metallic threads
>> wandered away
>> upon a boat’s reflection
>> full of anxious waiters
>> and haloed suitcases stacked
>> under the blue trees
>> which are literary
>> like varnished ropes.
>> 
>> 2.
>> 
>> Day, a bloodstain
>> on the schoolgirl’s pigtail
>> maybe it’s a violin
>> embedded in a hand
>> an ornamental nova
>> or not
>> a van full of roses
>> bulging in a grocery bag
>> or not
>> 
> 
> 
> You say "or not" as if you just don't care,
> but I know you do.
> 
> You are seething inside.
> 
> Why not let it out?



Again, I didn't notice any anger in the poem. 


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