Monday, June 11, 2012

Erosion of Memory: Shall We Gather at the River?


Could this filthy thread of a rivulet be the river where 

Full-bodied village women gathered each spring 
To wash their hand-loomed rugs

Or is it just another corporate 
Fabrication run loose? 


4 comments:

  1. I like the 'protest' feel of this thing, Vassilis--

    lately I've begun to think everything's been coporatized, including the imagination. Perhaps Hellas too.

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  2. speaking of "rivers" and commerce and memory.... in about 1970 I wrote to this (subject)
    where everything is (eventually if not sooner( turned into an object for sale !

    the poem is Nubia .... a comment about it down in this neat Tee See post broaching yours:
    http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/crux-bumpersticker.html

    Nubia was published in my 1970 Butcher of Oxen
    along with my "Greek" poems which also deal with
    the selling of.... just about everything...

    well?
    now
    off to see which Universities want to bid-up the price of my
    COMPLETE archives !

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  3. Could this filthy thread of a rivulet be the river where

    Full-bodied village women would gather each spring
    To wash their hand-loomed rugs

    becomes a compact version of Paradise Lost.

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  4. Friends, do I doth protest too much?

    No more pristine streams, no more skinny-dipping swimming holes –yea but plenty of corporate and individual assholes dumping their garbage and effluents everywhere—Paradise Lost is dead, long live the Paradise of Crap.

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