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nightdog_barks) wrote2011-12-01 05:53 pm
nightdog_barks) wrote2011-12-01 05:53 pm
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Thursday and A Poem
Met my radiation doc today. She is tall and dark and beautiful. :-D
Also, the November 28th issue of The New Yorker came, with a poem from one of my favorite writers in it:
Convalescing
I spend the days deciding
on a commemorative poem.
Not, luckily, an epitaph.
A quiet poem
to establish the fact of me.
As one of the incidental faces
in those stone processions.
Carefully done.
Not claiming that I was
at any of the great victories.
But that I volunteered.
~ Jack Gilbert
Also, the November 28th issue of The New Yorker came, with a poem from one of my favorite writers in it:
Convalescing
I spend the days deciding
on a commemorative poem.
Not, luckily, an epitaph.
A quiet poem
to establish the fact of me.
As one of the incidental faces
in those stone processions.
Carefully done.
Not claiming that I was
at any of the great victories.
But that I volunteered.
~ Jack Gilbert