- Non-Erotic Poetry
- April Fool
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The seed was bad, ergo the blossom
I knew how to say in Lungworm or Latin
as if I were born to the manner.
A pound is a pound, Bloke, the rent was due
I paid with a love song, absent love,
and they named me a gastromancer
but how I wish my stomach had purred
and fur balls had covered my tongue
inasmuch frogs now live in my throat.
So bless me, Father, before I croak.
Bleistein never had slime in his eye.
I don't really know beginning from end.
April is kind, but something is cruel.
- COMMENTS
greenmountaineerabout 10 years agoAuthorAs I said OF, this is rather esoteric. Bleistein was a character in one Eliot's poems. Many thought of the poem as an anti-semitic slur. Line 3 in the last stanza alludes to his "4 Quartets."
I'm among those who believe Eliot was anti-semitic, of the "suburban" type, as Ezra Pound would characterize his own anti-semitism later. I thought Eliot and Pound were instrumental in the development of modern poetry, but they both were very arrogant. "April Fool" was my attempt, vain perhaps, at a comeuppance.
OpenFieldabout 10 years agoI don't know if this poem is brilliant or confused. It seems brilliant, but as I can't really understand it, it seems confused. The "Waste Land" references are clear, but I don't get the Bleistein ones.
Please don't get me wrong. You are by far the most interesting poet here.
I'm just not sure I understand this poem.
greenmountaineerabout 10 years agoAuthorBlank. Kind of esoteric because of the subject, but I enjoyed writing it.
There were some slant rhymes. If I wrote it again, the last line would be:
"Something is cruel, but April is kind" to end it on a more positive note.
Angelineabout 10 years agoa form I should recognize? Either way it's a wonderful homage to Eliot. Just really good, GM.
