tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2605148134671900289.post585796563149702730..comments2023-09-05T05:01:59.293-04:00Comments on A Curiosity Shop: Poetry Fridaycuriousmarthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363666435706626551noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2605148134671900289.post-81325135870121825772009-03-18T01:30:00.000-04:002009-03-18T01:30:00.000-04:00Here's more Auden, which I dedicated to one of my ...Here's more Auden, which I dedicated to one of my authors (changing "Ireland" for "Hollywood" so it fit perfectly):<BR/><BR/>You were silly like us; your gift survived it all:<BR/>The parish of rich women, physical decay,<BR/>Yourself. Mad Hollywood hurt you into poetry.<BR/>Now Hollywood has her madness and her weather still,<BR/>For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives<BR/>In the valley of its making where executives<BR/>Would never want to tamper, flows on south<BR/>From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs,<BR/>Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives,<BR/>A way of happening, a mouth.Cantarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16135251374138680349noreply@blogger.com