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
- Огюст Барбье – Кьяйя
- The Courage Of Shutting-Up by Sylvia Plath
- Robert Burns: Grace After Meat:
- Song—A Waukrife Minnie by Robert Burns
- Михаил Кузмин – Утешение
- Contraptions by Satish Verma
- A HYMN TO BACCHUS by Robert Herrick
- Юнна Мориц – Комарово
- Ballade Of Sleep poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Зинаида Александрова – Кролики
- E.P. Ode Pour L’election De Son Sepulchre poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Duty Surviving Self-Love by Samuel Coleridge
- The Merry Guide poem – A. E. Housman
- PROGNOSIS by Satish Verma
- Dockery And Son by Philip Larkin
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
