Wednesday, May 29, 2013

wk 3 imitation 2 by liz snader

Life like a something or other by liz snader

I have seen life and it is like this:

It is like a dog and cat,
Wrestling over a cardboard box
In a rich, suburban neighborhood.

They both hover and plan their next
 Attack, and, at a point between giddy and crazy,
They both jump in at the same time.

Although this sounds absurd,
Let me go forward with this and reject your thoughtful answer-
Let me decide all predictions
Of the future, since, life itself,
Is so damn delicate
Like the wings of a hummingbird.

As life continues, we can see it like
The running of water over cardboard-
Water, the knowledge; cardboard our mind-
Knowledge fluidly flowing over and under
The mind with some things being absorb
And others being washed away.

Life-delicate and precious-
We hang in the between
Areas just to stay alive.


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Petersen: Kleichen and a Man

I have seen eternity and it is like this,
a man and woman dancing in a bar
in a poor street on an unswept floor.

It clings and plots and is desperate,
at a point between violence and abjection,
between warmth and agoraphobic fear.

Let me reverse this and accept the fear.
Let me drop all objections to abjection,
since life itself  is desperate

and has to tread the unswept floor
carefully, lovingly, while the bar
hovers in eternity. Like this.

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