Monday, January 24, 2022

I was told there would be no Dylan, poetry

 

In my craft or sullen art 

Exercised in the still night 
When only the moon rages 
And the lovers lie abed 
With all their griefs in their arms 
I labour by singing light 
Not for ambition or bread 
Or the strut and trade of charms 
On the ivory stages 
But for the common wages 
Of their most milk fed heart. 

Not for the proud man apart 
From the raging moon I write 
On these spindrift pages 
Nor for the towering dead 
With their nightingales and psalms 
But for the morons, their arms 
Round the griefs of the ages, 
Who pay no praise or wages 
Nor heed my craft as art

1 comment:

MamaM said...

Here's the deal on veal for those who like to keep drilling down.

How big is the jump from reminiscing about and focusing on the delightfulness of nubile, milk-fed "girls" to stepping aboard the Lolita Express? Likely not as big a step as one might imagine. On the plus side, whether the desire to partake rests at 2 or a 10, it all involves the same hormones that got the train rolling to begin with. Not saying a hankering that remains in the lower range isn't normal for red-blooded men who love the female meat (especially so for adolescent boys), but it needs to be recognized and accepted for what it is if it's not to take off and actually land at some fantasy island years later where a groomed underage girl sits and waits.

Just sayin'