98% Pynchon Free

[Dave Monroe]

"Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams"
Kenneth Koch (1962)

1
I chopped down the house that you had been saving to
live in next summer.
I am sorry, but it was morning, and I had nothing to
do
and its wooden beams were so inviting.

2
We laughed at the hollyhocks together
and then I sprayed them with lye.
Forgive me. I simply do not know what I am doing.

3
I gave away the money that you had been saving to live
on for the next ten years.
The man who asked for it was shabby
and the firm March wind on the porch was so juicy and
cold.

4
Last evening we went dancing and I broke your leg.
Forgive me. I was clumsy and
I wanted you here in the wards, where I am the doctor!

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/poetry/html/aupoem191.html

http://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/poetry/poems/variationsOnATheme.html

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/278.html

Reminds me, an NYU friend had an idea (or maybe it was
one of her perfessers') about arranging poets on a
scale from superhero to supervillain based on one's
supposed "disatnce" from allegedly "everyday" (you
know these distinctions are problematic for me ...)
language, making WCW Superman to TSE's Lex Luthor ...

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> I have eaten
> the plums
> that were in
> the icebox
> 
> and which
> you were probably
> saving
> for breakfast
> 
> Forgive me
> they were delicious
> so sweet
> and so cold

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