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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi

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To: Gauguin who wrote (7215)2/12/1998 11:09:00 AM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
Came across a poem last night and decided I had to post it to you and Thomas. Not sure I understand what it means---I'm not very good at searching out profound meaning, I just like words.
(A poem should not mean
But be.

--Archibald MacLeish)

The Ninth Symphony of Beethoven Understood at Last as Sexual Message

A man in terror of impotence
or infertility, not knowing the difference
a man trying to tell something
howling from the climacteric
music of the entirely
isolated soul
yelling at Joy from the tunnel of the ego
music without the ghost
of another person in it, music
trying to tell something the man
does not want out, would keep if he could
gagged and bound and flogged with chords of Joy
where everything is silence and the
beating of a bloody fist upon
a splintered table


Adrienne Rich
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