Ontological
by Maggie Anderson
This is going to cost you.
If you really want to hear a
country fiddle, you have to listen
hard, high up in its twang and needle.
You can’t be running off like this,
all knotted up with yearning,
following some train whistle,
can’t hang onto anything that way.
When you’re looking for what’s lost,
everything’s a sign,
but you have to stay right up next to
the drawl and pull of the thing
you thought you wanted, had to
have it, could not live without it.
Honey, you will lose your beauty
and your handsome sweetie, this whine,
this agitation, the one you sent for
with your leather boots and your guitar.
The lonesome snag of barbed wire you have
wrapped around your heart is cash money,
honey, you will have to pay.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Алексей Толстой – Ты не спрашивай, не распытывай
- Come down, O Maid poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Федор Сологуб – Собака седого короля
- Impromptu, to Lady Winchelsea poem – Alexander Pope
- The Drowned Man poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Beach Glass poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- By The Fates poem – Alfred Austin
- Repose In God by William Cowper
- Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn by Robert Burns
- Владимир Гиппиус – Друг, скажу тебе несказанное
- Sonnet 126: O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power by William Shakespeare
- Mother, Among The Dustbins by Stevie Smith
- Metamorphosis by Shaunna Harper
- Как в поход я собираюсь
- Conscience by Walter William Safar
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
