2013/09/04

I Should Resist This Degrading Donkey-Work in Favor of My Own Writing Wherein Contentment Surely Lies




Planet went bowling this past weekend, sent me the above photo of a bowling ball spotted and immediately photographed. It's been added to Blogroll Right and I posted it a few nights ago for an overnight post to her, thought I'd add it in this post so it's in the permanent archives, plus these are my hell weeks at work, the three weeks a year (this is the middle week) when I don't trust my fury's targeting (I mean more than usual) and express frustrated fury in sentences like this one as a result, and me as bowling ball serves as apt and fortunately timed gag.












AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS

Simon Armitage

Compiling this landmark anthology of poetry in English
about dogs and musical instruments is like swimming through bricks.
To date, I have only, “On the Death of Mrs. McTuesday’s Pug,
Killed by a Falling Piano,” a somewhat obvious choice.
True, an Aeolian harp whispers alluringly
in the background of the anonymous sonnet, “The Huntsman’s
      Hound,”
but beyond that — silence.

I should resist this degrading donkey-work in favor of my own
      writing,
wherein contentment surely lies.
But A. Smith stares smugly from the reverse of the twenty pound
      note,
and when my bank manager guffaws,
small particles of saliva stream like a meteor shower
through the infinity of dark space
between his world and mine.