[stylist] Poem - "Nile" - Secondish Draft

[William L Houts]

Hi Bridgit,

As always, thank you for your kind remark.  Happy Monday!


--Bill





On 4/13/2015 8:06 AM, Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter wrote:
> Bill,
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> As always, wonderfully written.
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> Bridgit
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> Houts via stylist
> Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:43 PM
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> Subject: [stylist] Poem - "Nile" - Secondish Draft
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> Hey Poets and Generally Hip Literary Types:
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> Just finished a poem, so you can't say I waste my Sundays.  I've been
> working on this one all day, off and on.  It's finally bearable, or anyway
> bearable enough to show to all you good pepples.  Actually, given the shape
> it was in this morning, I think I have reason for some small amount of
> pride.  Anyway, for such a small poem, I think it covers a lot of territory;
> your mileage may vary.  Poem follows below the dotted line.
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> --Bill
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> I'm staggered by the rightness of things:
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> how the point of a screwdriver serenely sockets its screw,
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> twisting until that faint happy groan, you know the one, announces
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> its deep mechanical yes.
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> And our coffee machine, the simplest of these, how it drips
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> our black happy liquor through its bullseye lid.
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> It's a great human art which delivers these tributes,
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> these high happy musics into garages and kitchens:
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> the vaults of our Knoxes, our brain banks,
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> the banks of a fish-slendid Nile
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> and gather our hungriest, r homeliest needs
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> in minds of sun-crowned thrashing silver.
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"Oh, Sophie!  Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"