Saturday, April 17, 2010

Hesitant

I hesitate to write to you
Since you told me
That everything was crazy there
Without disclosing any detail,
Though I hope it’s nothing or only too much work.

I hope it isn’t disease or despair
Or divorce or death, but even so
Something more desolate or devastating
May exist than I have been inclined to imagine.
I lift a glass and say a prayer to being wrong about it all.

rcs.

Current draft: 4/17/2010
Created on 4/10/2010 6:57 PM

This esoteric conceit clumsily conceived by Ron Southern at 7:31 PM
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6 comments:

  1. Twilight4/19/2010 10:45 AM

    A good writer could construct a whole novel around that one Ron.

    I've just read R.J. Waller's Bridges of Madison County and it kind of brought that to mind.

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  2. Ron Southern4/19/2010 5:32 PM

    Those long-winded novelists better be careful about "blowing things up".

    But what if I should tell you that a good writer already compressed that lengthy novel into a short poem? Do we really know what position we're in?

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  3. Ron Southern4/19/2010 5:34 PM

    I answered, but it didn't take. It was just a smart-aleck response, anyway, so I won't reconstruct it.

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  4. Ron Southern4/19/2010 5:35 PM

    Shit, there it is! Delayed reaction!

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  5. Twilight4/19/2010 6:13 PM

    Are you having comment delay too? I've been grumbling about it at the weekend and left a question on Blogger Help. There was one other similar complaint there too. no response to either though. Must be a bug in the system.

    Yes, maybe you wrote a story then did a concentrated version in the form of a poem. I can see that! :-)

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  6. Ron Southern4/19/2010 7:43 PM

    Not with the present material, but I did once write a short story and later came back and rendered it as a semi-erotic poem. I liked it better as a poem, though you'd think I wouldn't be able to decide!

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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here! (At least put on your socks and pants.)

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