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[blckhaze]

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[wayfuctup]

"a friend with weed is a friend indeed"

Me

[Ecstatic]

Quinn, thanks for posting the Ted Hughes poem. Whatever one might think of Hughes and Sylvia Plath, he was a great poet.

[Quinn]

Quinn, thanks for posting the Ted Hughes poem. Whatever one might think of Hughes and Sylvia Plath, he was a great poet.

While he was a dark and controversial figure, his pinnacle work (Crow 1970) represents one of the greatest poetic works in the last fifty years. When I first read many of the works contained therein, I had to take about twenty minutes to reflect upon each one in order to fully consider its meaning. Here's two more:

Crow's Nerve Fails

Crow, feeling his brain slip,
Finds his every feather the fossil of a murder.

Who murdered all these?
These living dead, that root in his nerves and his blood
Till he is visibly black?

How can he fly from his feathers?
And why have they homed on him?

Is he the archive of their accusations?
Or their ghostly purpose, their pining vengeance?
Or their unforgiven prisoner?

He cannot be forgiven.

His prison is the earth. Clothed in his conviction,
Trying to remember his crimes

Heavily he flies.

Crow's Fall

When Crow was white he decided the sun was too white.
He decided it glared much too whitely.
He decided to attack it and defeat it.

He got his strength flush and in full glitter.
He clawed and fluffed his rage up.
He aimed his beak direct at the sun's centre.

He laughed himself to the centre of himself

And attacked.

At his battle cry trees grew suddenly old,
Shadows flattened.

But the sun brightened-
It brightened, and Crow returned charred black.

He opened his mouth but what came out was charred black.

"Up there," he managed,
"Where white is black and black is white, I won."

-Quinn

[Slither]

"Ah, yes, divorce..., from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet" - Robin Williams

"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves." - Jerry Garcia

"The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams." - Tupac Shakur

"Jon Bon Jovi can suck my fucking dick" - Axl Rose

[Dina Delicious]

"I dropped out of High school but i didnt drop out of life"---August Wilson playwright

[chefmike]

Bend over and touch your toes,

and I'll show you where the wild goose goes!!


Ernest T. Bass, poet-at-large...Mayberry. N.C.

[AllanahStarrNYC]

"Darling, don't get even, get EVERYTHING."- Ivana Trump

[Harrys Boy]

This is not the end, it is not even the begining of the end, but it is perhaps the end of the begining.

Winston Churchill after North Africa

[Jack59]

Samuel Clemens
aka Mark Twain... no relation to Roger or Shania


Suppose you were a member of Congress and suppose you were an idiot. But I repeat myself.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on it's shoes.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.