poem Archives | Ouno Design https://ounodesign.com/tag/poem/ Fri, 11 Nov 2016 20:22:10 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 The Music Crept By Us https://ounodesign.com/2016/11/11/the-music-crept-by-us/ https://ounodesign.com/2016/11/11/the-music-crept-by-us/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2016 20:22:10 +0000 https://ounodesign.com/?p=19377

(Poem #339) The Music Crept By Us

I would like to remind
the management
that the drinks are watered
and the hat-check girl
has syphilis
and the band is composed
of former SS monsters
However since it is
New Year’s Eve
and I have lip cancer
I will place my
paper hat on my
concussion and dance.

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In spite of being completely irreligious and not fond of any of the patriarchal monotheisms with fathery deities, I still love this poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins from 1877. We studied it in high school and for some reason I never forgot it.

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Today we spent the afternoon diving down and ripping out water lily roots from the muddy lake bottom, because even though the lilies are beautiful, they’re an introduced species and they’re slowly filling the lake.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2009/08/06/at-the-lake/feed/ 0 I am a jackeroo in the ebay https://ounodesign.com/2009/05/28/i-am-a-jackeroo-in-the-ebay/ https://ounodesign.com/2009/05/28/i-am-a-jackeroo-in-the-ebay/#respond Fri, 29 May 2009 04:31:47 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=4445 .

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This eBay ad is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen on the internet. All sincerely, no magniloquence. Why, why did I not bid on the monkey-on-horse sculpture purportedly made of amber?

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I found this tragic modern poem online while researching ventilation for the studio. I took a screenshot of it just in case someone failed to recognize its morose genius and removed it from the public domain.

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