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To: N who wrote (3308)3/18/1999 1:45:00 AM
From: Volsi Mimir  Read Replies (1) of 13016
 
Lives
Derek Mahon

First time out
I was torc of gold
And wept tears of the sun.

That was fun
But they buried me
In the earth two thousand years

Til a labourer
Turned me up with a pick
In eighteen fifty-four

And sold me
For tea and sugar
In Newmarket-on-Fergus.

Once I was an oar
But stuck in the shore
To mark the place of a grave

When the lost ship
Sailed away. I thought
Of Ithica, but soon decayed.

The time that I liked
Best was when
I was a bump of clay

In a Navaho rug,
Put there to mitigate
The too godlike

Perfection of that
Merely human artifact.
I served my maker well--

He lived long
To be struck down in
Tucson by an electric shock

The night the lights
Went out in Europe
Never to shine again.

So many lives,
So many things to remember!
I was a stone in Tibet,

A tongue of bark
At the heart of Africa
Growing darker and darker.....

It all seems
A little unreal now,
Now that I am

an anthropologist
With my own
Credit card, dictaphone,

Army surplus boots
And a whole boatload
of photographic equipment.

I knew too much
To be anything any more;
And if in the distant

Future someone
Thinks he has once been me
As I am today,

Let him revise
His insolent ontology
Or teach himself to pray.
---===---

The larger the island of knowledge,
the longer the shoreline of wonder
Ralph Sockman

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year
Marty Allen
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