I totally missed Poem in Your Pocket Day!! But here's one for you that I just read in Anne Lamott's book, Bird by Bird. I thought it was hilarious and had noted in the margin that you might like it, too. Ever known anyone you'd like to send this to? It's by Phillip Lopate. In honor of Pocket Day then:
We who are your closest friends feel the time has come to tell you that every Thursday we have been meeting, as a group, to devise ways to keep you in perpetual uncertainty frustration discontent and torture by neither loving you as much as you want nor cutting you adrift. Your analyst is in on it, plus your boyfriend and your ex-husband; and we have pledged to disappoint you as long as you need us. In announcing our association we realize we have placed in your hands a possible antidote against uncertainty indeed against ourselves. But since our Thursday nights have brought us to a community of purpose rare in itself with you as the natural center, we feel hopeful you will continue to make unreasonable demands for affection if not as a consequence of your disastrous personality then for the good of the collective.
thanks, Neesh!! haha. I love Philip Lopate. I've thought of him more as an essayist than a poet, so this was fun to read. It sounds familiar, as if i have either read it in the past, or had it given to me.... ;-)
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Thanks I had NO idea it was Poem in your pocket day. Thanks for the link, without it I would have been left high and dry! I got one about mice...
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I totally missed Poem in Your Pocket Day!! But here's one for you that I just read in Anne Lamott's book, Bird by Bird. I thought it was hilarious and had noted in the margin that you might like it, too. Ever known anyone you'd like to send this to? It's by Phillip Lopate. In honor of Pocket Day then:
We who are
your closest friends
feel the time
has come to tell you
that every Thursday
we have been meeting,
as a group,
to devise ways
to keep you
in perpetual uncertainty
frustration
discontent and torture
by neither loving you
as much as you want
nor cutting you adrift.
Your analyst is
in on it,
plus your boyfriend
and your ex-husband;
and we have pledged
to disappoint you
as long as you need us.
In announcing our
association
we realize we have
placed in your hands
a possible antidote
against uncertainty
indeed against ourselves.
But since our Thursday nights
have brought us
to a community
of purpose
rare in itself
with you as
the natural center,
we feel hopeful you
will continue to make unreasonable
demands for affection
if not as a consequence
of your disastrous personality
then for the good of the collective.
thanks, Neesh!! haha. I love Philip Lopate. I've thought of him more as an essayist than a poet, so this was fun to read. It sounds familiar, as if i have either read it in the past, or had it given to me.... ;-)
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