to Saga for his family collection
Without a family,
I simply have to do with this at bay,
a family of strange remoteness
available only by sterile machines;
and maybe that's a family as good as any.
No beatings, no rapes, no spanking,
no risks of any legal injustice,
no incest and no abortions;
so maybe even such an abstract family as this
could be a better one
than one involving sex?
The all too palpable loss of just one member
shattering the whole bay
resounding with a desperation
almost exceeding Chinese and Burmese ones
actually indicates we have a family here.
And since it lacks all those terrible disadvantages
that regular families always import,
so let's keep it and continue the good work
so marvellously pioneered by our fallen hero.
Actually, we owe it to the honour of his memory.
Poetry by Laila Roth
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Written on 2008-05-19 at 10:02
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My family at bay
Without a family,
I simply have to do with this at bay,
a family of strange remoteness
available only by sterile machines;
and maybe that's a family as good as any.
No beatings, no rapes, no spanking,
no risks of any legal injustice,
no incest and no abortions;
so maybe even such an abstract family as this
could be a better one
than one involving sex?
The all too palpable loss of just one member
shattering the whole bay
resounding with a desperation
almost exceeding Chinese and Burmese ones
actually indicates we have a family here.
And since it lacks all those terrible disadvantages
that regular families always import,
so let's keep it and continue the good work
so marvellously pioneered by our fallen hero.
Actually, we owe it to the honour of his memory.
Poetry by Laila Roth
Read 567 times
Written on 2008-05-19 at 10:02
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