Ontological
by Maggie Anderson
This is going to cost you.
If you really want to hear a
country fiddle, you have to listen
hard, high up in its twang and needle.
You can’t be running off like this,
all knotted up with yearning,
following some train whistle,
can’t hang onto anything that way.
When you’re looking for what’s lost,
everything’s a sign,
but you have to stay right up next to
the drawl and pull of the thing
you thought you wanted, had to
have it, could not live without it.
Honey, you will lose your beauty
and your handsome sweetie, this whine,
this agitation, the one you sent for
with your leather boots and your guitar.
The lonesome snag of barbed wire you have
wrapped around your heart is cash money,
honey, you will have to pay.
End of the poem
15 random poems
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- The Dying Christian to His Soul poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
- “Why should I, from this long and losing strife ” poem – Alfred Austin
- Вергилий – Лидия
- The Blessed by William Butler Yeats
- Young Man’s Song by William Butler Yeats
- Climbing poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Faun by Sylvia Plath
- John Milton As Author of Pornographic Verse: An Extempore Upon a Faggot
- Epistle to James Smith by Robert Burns
- Where Are You
- You Ask Why Sometimes I Say Stop by Marge Piercy
- London Poets poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Golden Year! poem – Alfred Austin
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