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Rupert wins! He added just the punch line this entire post was set up to
get! So, to Rupert, I reply: "You first." bidda bing bidda boom.
Will

http://www.amber-kaye.com/forum/viewthread.php?action=attachment&tidD9&pidh1

Skirt of Printed Sunflowers.

Girl of these woods and chemicals,
we labor for the black pigs of my poetry,
for the bone gods of the sea,
for the secret rose you keep for me,
under the skirts of printed sunflowers.

There is a hollering and someone has a
dog that barks,
your eyes have that recently crying look,
and your hair seems as soft
and your smell as sweet, as before,
as that last time you came to my door,
in a skirt of printed pastel sunflowers.

But it has been seen that you look
straight through,
I fear that you are already gone,
that night you tried to die in my arms,
is something that I will not forget
or make sense of,
you and your skirt of bright printed sunflowers.

Methinks that you no longer see nothing,
and god knows what kind
of love is this,
you told me that you never stopped loving me,
but you could never return to me,
in your skirt of printed sunflowers.

-Will Dockery 2001

"rupert" <tasyca@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Ironywaves" <ironywaves@knology.net> wrote in message
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> > "The poet makes himself a visionary through a long, a prodigious and
> > rational disordering of all the senses. Every form of love, of
> > suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he consumes all the
> > poisons in him, keeping only their quintessences . . ." --Arthur Rimbaud
> >
> > Inspiration for the following list of dead literary figures came from
> > Charles Bukowski’s poem "Beasts bounding through time,"
> > specifically the lines "Sylvia [Plath] with her head in the oven like
> > a baked potato . . . Shakespeare a plagiarist . . . the impossibility
> > of being human." Some may call it morbid, some may call it truth -
> > either way I don’t give a damn.
> >
> >  Euripides [480-406 B.C.] Greek Playwright - Mauled by a pack
> > of wild dogs owned by Archelaus, the King of Macedonia.
> >
> >  Dante Alighieri [1256-1321] Italian Poet - Fell ill and died
> > about an hour after completing The Divine Comedy.
> >
> >  Francis Villon [1431-1464?] French Poet - May have been
> > attacked by a mob of bandits or hanged by authorities after a brief
> > prison stay for murdering a priest. Take your pick. Left France at the
> > age of 32 and was never heard from again. "Where are the snows of
> > yesteryear?"
> >
> >  Christopher Marlowe [1564-1593] English Playwright - Stabbed
> > with a dagger during a bar fight at the inn of the Widow Bull in
> > Deptford. Was it an argument over the bill?
> >
> >  Richard Lovelace [1618-1658] English Poet - Believed to have
> > died of consumption "in a very mean lodging" in Gunpowder Alley, Shoe
> > Lane. "I could not love thee, dear, so much/Loved I not honour more."
> >
> >  Thomas Chatterton [1752-1770] English Poet - Killed self by
> > drinking arsenic at the age of 17. Apparently in despair over lack of
> > recognition. Gained popularity after death. [Editor’s Note:
> > Chatterton’s father was well known around town for a rather
> > dubious talent - he could put his entire fist in his mouth.]
> >
> >  Lord Byron [1788-1824] English Poet - Killed by doctors
> > during a "blood letting" attempt to cure malarial fever. Last words:
> > "I must sleep now."
> >
> >  Percy Bysshe Shelley [1792-1822] English Poet - Drowned while
> > sailing near Spezia, Italy, and was cremated on the beach.
> > [Editor’s Note: Shelley’s heart wouldn’t burn and
> > was given to his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley as a souvenir.]
> >
> >  Honore De Balzac [1799-1850] French Author - Believed to have
> > choked on too much coffee.
> >
> >  Edgar Allan Poe [1809-1849] American Author - Died of "acute
> > congestion of the brain" several days after he was discovered lying
> > unconscious in a Baltimore street, wearing someone else’s
> > tattered clothes.
> >
> >  Leo Tolstoy [1828-1910] Russian Author - Gave away entire
> > fortune, froze to death in a railroad station on a cold winter night.
> >
> >  Ambrose Bierce [1842-1914?] American Author - Disappeared in
> > Mexico while reporting on the Pancho Villa’s rebellion. May have
> > been murdered by bandits.
> >
> >  Arthur Rimbaud [1854-1891] French Poet - A probable victim of
> > syphilis, had right leg amputated, became paralyzed and gradually
> > slipped into permanent coma.
> >
> >  Lionel Johnson [1867-1902] British Poet - Fell off a barstool
> > during a bout of heavy drinking, according to legend.
> >
> >  Alfred Jarry [1873-1907] French Dramatist - Paralyzed in both
> > legs at the age of 34. Last request was for a toothpick.
> >
> >  Sherwood Anderson [1876-1941] American Author - Complications
> > of peritonitis in Colon, Panama, after ingesting a toothpick along
> > with a hors d’oeuvre at a cocktail party.
> >
> >  Jack London [1876-1916] American Author - A "raging
> > alcoholic," died of uremia brought on by a morphine overdose at the
> > age of 40.
> >
> >  Vachel Lindsay [1879-1931] American Poet - Killed self by
> > drinking disinfectant.
> >
> >  Virginia Woolf [1882-1941] British Author & Critic - Filled
> > pockets with stones and drowned self in the river Ouse.
> >
> >  Franz Kafka [1883-1924] - Died of tuberculosis and was buried
> > in Prag-Straschintz. Had requested that all of his work be destroyed
> > after his death.
> >
> >  Ezra Pound [1885-1972] - Arrested for treason after World War
> > II for broadcasting Fascist propaganda, declared mentally ill and
> > committed to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Washington D.C. Released in
> > 1958 and died a semi-recluse in Italy. [Editor’s Note: Born in
> > Hailey, Idaho, Pound’s middle name was Loomis.]
> >
> >  Maxwell Bodenheim [1893-1954] American Author - Shot with a
> > .22 rifle by an insane dishwasher.
> >
> >  Sergei Esenin [1895-1925] Russian Poet - Cut wrists, wrote a
> > final poem in own blood (called "Do svidania drug moi" or "Goodbye my
> > friend") and hanged self in a hotel room in Leningrad.
> >
> >  F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940] American Author - Legendary
> > boozer suffered a heart attack while working as a screenwriter in
> > Hollywood for a couple of hundred bucks a week. According to John
> > O’Hara, Fitz died "a prematurely old little man haunting
> > bookshops unrecognized." [Editor’s Note: Zelda died in a fire at
> > an Asheville, North Carolina, mental hospital in 1948.]
> >
> >  William Faulkner [1897-1962] American Author - Suffered a
> > heart attack after falling off a horse.
> >
> >  Hart Crane [1899-1932] American Poet - While en route to New
> > York aboard the S.S. Orizaba, leapt into the Caribbean Sea; reputedly
> > said "Good-bye everybody."
> >
> >  Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961] American Author - Blew brains
> > out with a hunting rifle in Ketchum, Idaho.
> >
> >  Thomas Wolfe [1900-1938] American Author - Suffered a
> > cerebral infection, leaving an eight-foot-high manuscript for his
> > editors to sort through. Buried in Riverside Cemetery, Asheville,
> > North Carolina. ". . . the last voyage, the longest, the best."
> >
> >  Nathanael West [1903-1940] American Author - Car accident
> > killed West and his wife after he ignored a stop sign. His buddy, F.
> > Scott Fitzgerald, died the same weekend.
> >
> >  Robert E. Howard [1906-1936] Sword & Sorcery Writer - Spent
> > all-night vigil at bedside of comatose mother and died of
> > self-inflicted gunshot in the morning; mother died that same night.
> >
> >  Malcolm Lowry [1909-1957] British Author - A "sleeping-pill
> > suicide," fell dead with a plate in hand while starting in on a
> > midnight snack, according to writer Donald Newlove. ". . . and how
> > alike are the groans of love, to those of dying."
> >
> >  Tennessee Williams [1911-1983] American Playwright - Choked
> > on a bottle cap while trying to get hands on some barbiturates.
> >
> >  Albert Camus [1913-1960] French Author - Single-car
> > automobile crash while returning to Paris from the South of France.
> >
> >  John Berryman [1914-1972] American Poet - Jumped from a
> > bridge over the Mississippi River; reputedly waved at passersby on way
> > down.
> >
> >  Dylan Thomas [1914-1953] Welsh Poet - Alcohol poisoning
> > during a lecture tour of the United States. "I’ve had 18
> > straight whiskies . . . I think that’s the record."
> >
> >  Roland Barthes [1915-1980] French Critic & Philosopher - Run
> > over by laundry truck outside the College de France. "Literature is
> > the question minus the answer."
> >
> >  Jack Kerouac [1922-1969] American Author - Abdominal
> > haemorrhage at mother’s home in St. Petersburg, Florida, while
> > watching "The Galloping Gourmet."
> >
> >  Flannery O’Connor [1924-1964] American Author - Became
> > gradually immobilised by lupus and died at the age of 40.
> >
> >  Yukio Mishima [1925-1970] Japanese Author - Committed seppuku
> > (hara-kiri) and was beheaded during failed attempt to overtake a
> > Japanese garrison.
> >
> >  Anne Sexton [1928-1974] American Poet - Committed suicide by
> > carbon monoxide poisoning in the garage of her home.
> >
> >  Sylvia Plath [1932-1963] American Poet - Stuck head in a
> > kitchen oven.
> >
> >  Jerzy Kosinski [1933-1991] Polish-Born American Author -
> > Think he committed suicide by placing a plastic bag over his head in
> > the bathtub. [Can anyone else confirm this?]
> >
> >  Richard Brautigan [1935-1984] American Author -
> > Self-inflicted gunshot wound; body wasn’t discovered for several
> > weeks.
> >
> >  Seth Morgan [1949-1990] American Author - Rode motorcycle off
> > the Golden Gate Bridge and into the San Francisco Bay.
> >
> >  John O’Brien [1961?-1997?] American Author - Committed
> > suicide just two weeks after selling the movie rights to
> > "autobiographical novel" Leaving Las Vegas. Book served as suicide
> > note. [Editor’s Note: Couldn’t find the actual dates of
> > his birth and death. Anyone out there know?]
> >
> > ". . . [The poet] arrives at the unknown: and even if, half crazed, in
> > the end, he loses the understanding of his visions, he has seen them!
> > Let him be destroyed in his leap by those unnameable, unutterable and
> > innumerable things: there will come other horrible workers: they will
> > begin at the horizons where he has succumbed." --Arthur Rimbaud
> >
> > Roundtable
>
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