Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ANECDOTE SYMPHONIOUS, by GEORGE JAMES MICHALOPOULOS


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ANECDOTE SYMPHONIOUS, by                    
First Line: I gaze at the too beautiful body of you laid down
Last Line: Laid down, so rest ... Rest....
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Worms; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


I gaze at the too beautiful body of you laid down ...
Resting, you are not shrunk as Baii Haad, who had a
Boulder gouged to fit his body ... The blood that, on
That day, flung wildly and every which way, besmirching
Your cheek ... Flying flesh, yours, crashed against
Flesh flying ... A sigh ... You fluttered ... Ah, you
Sighed....

Now, ah, now, you are nourishment for Khiwee who crawls,
Thinks nothing of boring ... Ah, behind plate glass, the
Too beautiful body of you tells me that I loved you,
Corpse under the ground ... You are divided by a wound
That once bled profusely ... I am glad that it does not
Now bleed to twist your too beautiful body and face....

Listen, I'm talking to you, Ru ... Shall I keep vigil
In this room bathed in cold, knowing nothing but the
Varying green, and you who rendered soft child, you who
Never knew, never will know, soft child died? ... An
Athlete's legs are mine, hard, strong ... I'll gather
Hyacinths this afternoon ... Look, I am out in the air,
Flecked by the shade of your imported marble tomb ... I,
Unworthy, did not touch the too beautiful body of you
Laid down, so rest ... rest....





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