Grateful Dead
LONE GOOSE
The flocks of geese are
Headed south
Honking and screeching
And forming into vees
Flying all night alone
Now the day breaks
But he doent know it, he doesn't rest
Or even slow down
He's got to get back To his one true love The only one who
Knows his sound
He calls and calls
As he flaps and flaps For
he knows she
Has many suitors
And their bright feathers
Might lure her away
So the day breaks
With a north wind
And dense fluffy clouds
And he honks her name
And flaps and flaps.
the cats don't know
what to think about
the bats
flying mice flickering
shadows of night fall
the cats
sit alert eyes skyward
ears rotoring tracking
the bats
high-pitched clicking
flitting ravenously by
Thanks slo and Anna, but how would I like it to be credited? Two shy of a dozen formicidae, would do it, I'm thinking:
By Ten Ants
Thanks Mike,
(My personal lament follows yours)
When you purse
your lips like that
does your anus
pucker up as well?
When you arrogantly deny obvious reality
Are worms gnawing holes in your brain?
Do you honestly believe we
Wouldn't rather have to deal with you?
Landlords are the greatest advertisement
for collective, communal co-habitation.
Thanks again Mike- all credit to you!
"I forget which of the great sonneteers said: 'One line in the fourteen comes from the ceiling; the others have to be adjusted around it.'"
From an interview in The Paris Review, Winter 1956
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When you purse
your lips like that
does your anus
pucker up as well?
The loneliest sound I know
falls like hail on a tin roof.
Each stone leaves its dent.
Less permanent: the clattering
cacophony of Chicken Little's
forecast come true.
Once, my sky had fallen;
my voice was erased.
Now, all I can do is type.
My brothers, if someone is detected
by sin, you who live by the spirit
should gently set him right, each of you
trying to avoid falling into temptation
himself. 2 Help carry one another's
burdens; in that way you will fulfill the
law of Christ. 3 If anyone thinks he
amounts to something, when in fact he
is nothing, he is only deceiving himself.
4 Each man should look to his conduct;
if he has reason to boast of anything,
it will be because the achievement is
his and not another's. 5 Everyone should
bear his own responsibility.
6 The man instructed in the word should
all he has with his instructor. 7 Make no mistake
about it, no one makes a fool of God!
A man will reap only what he sows. 8 If
he sows in in the field of flesh, he will reap
a harvest of corruption; but if his seed-ground
is the spirit, he will reap everlasting life. 9
Let us not grow weary of doing good; if
we do not relax our efforts, in due time
we shall reap our harvest. 10 While we
have the opportunity, let us do good to all
men --- especially those of the house-hold
of faith.
GALATIANS 6: 1-10
NAB 1970
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