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

[Michael Bailey]

And happy Thanksgiving to you too!

 alice wellintown  wrote:
>> > 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
>



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