Saturday, April 16, 2011

Placebo

Treat yourself if you must,
Even indulging yourself

To surfeit but remember
This bitter pill—

Poetry cures nothing.


7 comments:

  1. Who wants a cure? Poetry offers something better, comfort in face of all those things that can never be cured but must be endured.

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  2. Or if not comfort then at least a distraction.

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  3. to quote the great feline poet / pizza lover "i resemble that remark" ... ha! ... perfect! ... placebo, indeed ...

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  4. Poetry cures (relieves) because it cures (preserves) and has a good track record, as placebos go. So don't be bitter, Vassilis. Treat yourself to a slug of retsina instead of a draught of despair; you're really something because you care.

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  5. Dear friends,

    Thank you for all the above comments; they led me to
    this and I'm grateful for your contributions.

    PS. I'm really not as despairing as "Placebo" suggests; I think being Cinquor's moderator has something to do with it.

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  6. "Poetry cures nothing."

    I had to look this up but it reminds me of this:

    "It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there."

    -William Carlos Williams

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  7. Kevin--

    One of my favorite (of many) quotations from one of my favorite poets; nice to get this bit of news from you.

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