by Jolie Blond
08/09/01
Damned scary
is what this is,
this poem I began reading
at precisely 1:36 a.m.,
a poem entitled
'one thirty six a.m.'.
Damned scary
is what this is,
this poem that was written
over 19 years ago
about how I'm feeling
tonight.
Damned scary
is what this is:
that this cantankerous old dead poet
could peek through
his dirty yellow and blue walls
and see us all.
But then I guess that men who stay up late
typing words, alone,
while the world around them
gets crazier and crazier;
men like that
have predictable pathologies.
Still, I'm impressed,
old dead poet,
that you seemed to understand
Celine, Dostoevsky, Hamsun
and the Marquisdejolie
so well.
And I thank you,
old dead poet,
for helping me
understand me
better.
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Sound Russian to me. Depressive. Dark, with a deep, wise, dismissive sense of mankind. Not a happy camper. But then, self awareness can be pretty depressing for some folks, and a depressive intellectual can fool themselves into thinking they know some deep truth about mankind. Their rants resonate with the depressed, and those infatuated with the illusion of wisdom, and the next thing you know they're offing themselves in some pedestrian way, leaving their public to wonder "what the fuck?"
ReplyDeleteNow this is the real shit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0e9qqF5Yhs
ReplyDeleteYou, Bono and Buk are such optimists.
ReplyDeleteI loved that poem. Felt very real to me :)
ReplyDeleteMatt