This Life // Grace Paley

[iatrogenicmyth]

Poet Grace Paley is dead at the age of 84.

My friend tells me
a man in my house jumped off the roof
the roof is the eighth floor of this building
the roof door was locked how did he manage?
his girlfriend had said goodbye I'm leaving
he was 22
his mother and father were hurrying
at that very moment
from upstate to help him move out of Brooklyn
they had

Comments

[softanimal]

i love this, and relate to it deeply.

so many of our greatest voices are dying.

thank you for posting this.

[tears_of_nienna]

and for what? for only
one thing this life this life

God, I needed that so much. Thank you for posting this.

[applegnat]

Sorrow. What a great, great poet and writer.

[popartagenda]

i met her when i was an intern at a poetry center & she kept crazy cool hours. her emails were always dated from 4 am. cool lady

[break_the_stars]

I like this. A lot.