Conversation

We smile at each other

and I lean back against the wicker couch.

How does it feel to be dead? I say.

You touch my knees with your blue fingers.

And when you open your mouth,

a ball of yellow light falls to the floor

and burns a hole through it.

Don’t tell me, I say. I don’t want to hear.

Did you ever, you start,

wear a certain kind of dress

and just by accident,

so inconsequential you barely notice it,

your fingers graze that dress

and you hear the sound of a knife cutting paper,

you see it too

and you realize how that image

is simply the extension of another image,

that your own life

is a chain of words

that one day will snap.

Words, you say, young girls in a circle, holding hands,

and beginning to rise heavenward

in their confirmation dresses,

like white helium balloons,

the wreathes of flowers on their heads spinning,

and above all that,

that’s where I’m floating,

and that’s what it’s like

only ten times clearer,

ten times more horrible.

Could anyone alive survive it?

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External links

Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus

Talking Writing Monster’s Page –

Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Poems in English 

• William Gilmore Simms – William Gilmore Simms by William Gilmore Simms
• Ode–Shell The Old City! Shell! by William Gilmore Simms by William Gilmore Simms
• Morris Island by William Gilmore Simms by William Gilmore Simms
• Hast Thou A Song For A Flower by William Gilmore Simms by William Gilmore Simms
• Flight To Nature by William Gilmore Simms by William Gilmore Simms
• Blessings On Children by William Gilmore Simms by William Gilmore Simms
• Hymn To Woden by William Lisle Bowles by William Lisle Bowles
• Hope, An Allegorical Sketch by William Lisle Bowles by William Lisle Bowles
• Epitaph On H. Walmsley, Esq., by William Lisle Bowles by William Lisle Bowles
• Elegy Written At Hotwells, Bristol by William Lisle Bowles by William Lisle Bowles
• Distant View Of England From The Sea by William Lisle Bowles by William Lisle Bowles
• Death Of Captain Cooke, by William Lisle Bowles by William Lisle Bowles
• Battle Of Corruna by William Lisle Bowles by William Lisle Bowles
• Avenue In Savernake Forest by William Lisle Bowles by William Lisle Bowles
• At Tynemouth Priory by William Lisle Bowles by William Lisle Bowles
• At Oxford by William Lisle Bowles by William Lisle Bowles
• At Malvern by William Lisle Bowles by William Lisle Bowles
• At Dover by William Lisle Bowles by William Lisle Bowles
• Approach Of Summer by William Lisle Bowles by William Lisle Bowles
• Abba Thule’s Lament For His Son Prince Le Boo by William Lisle Bowles by William Lisle Bowles

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

Doska or the Board – write anything

Search engines:

Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.

Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees

Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

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