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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REMEMBERING WILD WORDS, by REX HUNTER
First Line: I remember the wild words, the drunken words, the boast-
Last Line: Before the smirking bully knocked them flat with his bony fist.
Subject(s): Death; Language; Memory; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary
First Line: I remember the wild words, the drunken words, the boast-
Last Line: Before the smirking bully knocked them flat with his bony fist.
Subject(s): Death; Language; Memory; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary
I remember the wild words, the drunken words, the boastings uttered by
mortals
before Death whirled the words away.
I do not laugh at them, I do not patronize or blame them, the futile
braggarts
fallen into dust.
I rejoice that they stood up and spat into the wind and uttered wild
words
before the smirking bully knocked them flat with his bony fist.
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