Lady Lazarus |
I have done it again.
One year in every ten
I manage it---
A sort of walking miracle, my skin
Bright as a Nazi lampshade,
My right foot
A paperweight,
My face a featureless, fine
Jew lin...
Posted by Annie, get your gun. on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:45:00 PST |
The Divine Comedy |
In that abyss I saw how love held bound
Into one volume all the lives whose flight
Is scattered through the universe around;
How substance, accident, and mode unite,
Fused, so to speak, together in su...
Posted by Annie, get your gun. on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:44:00 PST |
How culture blinds us of the ways of love |
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...
Posted by Annie, get your gun. on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:13:00 PST |
Solid Ice |
We should always remember that the work of art is invariably the creation of a new world, so that the first thing we should do is to study that new world as closely as possible, approaching it as some...
Posted by Annie, get your gun. on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:07:00 PST |
la la la, answer me. |
WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF:I committed suicide:I said I liked you:I kissed you:I lived next door to you:I started doing really bad drugs:I stole something:I was hospitalized:I ran away from home:I got into ...
Posted by Annie, get your gun. on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:04:00 PST |
Alfred de Musset |
My heart, still full of her,
Traveled over her face, and found her there no more...
I thought to myself that a woman unknown
Had adopted by chance that voice and those eyes
And I let the chilly statue...
Posted by Annie, get your gun. on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:36:00 PST |
Denise Levertov |
Look inward: see me
with embryo wings, one
feathered in soot, the other
blazing ciliations of ember, pale
flare-pinions. Well -
could I go
on one wing
the white one?...
Posted by Annie, get your gun. on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:06:00 PST |
The Secret |
Two girls discover
the secret of life
in a sudden line of
poetry.
I who don't know the
secret wrote
the line. They
told me
(through a third person)
they had found it
but not what it was
...
Posted by Annie, get your gun. on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:24:00 PST |
Help me believe its not the real me |
Trust me
And take my hand
When the lights go out, you will understand...
Maybe we'll turn it all around
'Cause it's not too late
It's never too late
Until we see this eye to eye, I don't...
Posted by Annie, get your gun. on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:55:00 PST |
So if you're asking me, I want you to know... |
When my time comesForget the wrong that I've doneHelp me leave behind someReasons to be missedAnd don't resent meAnd when you're feeling emptyKeep me in your memoryLeave out all the resti stole your h...
Posted by Annie, get your gun. on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:12:00 PST |
