rubrics (I like that word), wrecking crews and hugfests

[alice wellintown]

> > Robin Landseadel wrote:  To make my point as short, sweet and relevant as possible

I prefer long not so sweet and I'm not even sure what relavent means
or how to spell it but if it's possible I'll tax it to my sins against
grammar and pass the lumpy gravy.

One observes them, one expects them,
Blue breasted in their indifferent mortuary,
Beached end bare on the cold marble slabs
In immodest underwear frills of feather.


The red sides of beef retain
Some of the smelly majesty of living:
A half-cow slung from a hood maintains
That blood and flesh are not ignored.


But a turkey cowers in death.
Pull his neck, pluck him, and look -
He is just another poor forked thing,
An ink-blotch,y slump of putty.


He once complained extravagantly
In an overture of gobbles;
He lorded it on the claw-flecked mud
With a grey flick of his cConfucian eye.


Now, in my winter woolens and turned up collar,
I pass the butcher's bleak December dazzle
And casually note the importance
Of plumage and perpindicularity.




Seamus Heaney