Classic and Contemporary Poetry

WE CAN'T WRITE OURSELVES INTO ETERNAL LIFE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
Last Line: And share the earth with earth
Subject(s): Mortality; Writing & Writers; Truth

The printing press thunders out
advertisements for brassieres
and girdles in four colors. Do you
have any idea of the time, effort
and skill that have gone
into building this machine?
Careers are built on it,
marriages made
and families founded.