Thursday, October 7, 2010

Basket Case

Blue with all malice, like a madman’s flash
“Arms and the Boy,” Wilfred Owen

When I dwell on what
This wretched body

Politic has yet to offer,
I see myself bearing

Baskets of arms wrenched
From boys that have been

Appropriated solely
To appease it.

2 comments:

  1. Great, great poem. And let me congratulate you on your beautiful new layout, along with the “pages” addition. Darn it! — I’d better go out and pump up my bicycle tires!

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  2. Glad you liked the poem, the layout and the "pages" addition; I especially added the biking page with the bike routes so you could ride your bike from Oregon straight to "The Milk and Honey House!"

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