Poetry

[cmt2779]

As I have nothing substantive to say about my life today (except that I feel much better than yesterday, thank you), here are some short poems I quite like.

Not Waving But DrowningStevie Smith (1957

Comments

Oops--formatting issue

[cmt2779]

The Ron Carter poem should actually have big spaces within certain lines (e.g., "Sometimes still [giant space] in my deepest sleep. / Someone orders "Turn" [giant space] and we turn.), but it didn't show up as entered. So the sense is still the same, but the appearance is not. I don't know how to fix that, though. Oh well.

Re: Oops--formatting issue

[particle_mann]

A couple of ways to fix that, ranging from the elegant (which I'm not exactly sure how to do, but I'm pretty sure involves either tags or CSS commands) to the brute force, which is to just add a
tag for every blank line you want.

And yes, those poems were depressing, though the anti breeding one is also witty.