the publican’s credo

[larvatus]

1. No one should die for want of a kidney transplant.
2. No one needs two kidneys.
3. We must tax the surplus to redress the want.

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[larvatus.livejournal.com]

the conversation was about being happy to live, to wake up every day.

                 The Waking

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.

Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me, so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.

             —Theodore Roethke, 1953

A genial hereditary drunk, Roethke succumbed to a heart attack in a swimming pool at the age of 55.

[vsha.livejournal.com]

thx for the poem.
i liked the refrain
funny fact that this swimming pool became zen rock garden

also, below you were talking about shorten life expectancy of gay. I found out(read research somewhere) that the same is true for single man. none of which concerns me as death itself. i like to read about love more nowdays.

[larvatus.livejournal.com]

Speaking of life expectancies, here is another villanelle. As an eternal student, I confess a liking for Rodney Dangerfield’s interpretation.

[vsha.livejournal.com]

i liked the recitation on poets.org better. may be because i dislike rodney dangerfield.
thx again. didn't know dylan thomas at all.

[unruler.livejournal.com]

Михаил, большое спасибо за совершенно роскошные стихи.

"I feel my fate in what I cannot fear."

"I learn by going where I have to go."

Уровень и качество Вашей аргументации,такт и блестящая эрудиция доставили мне огромное интеллектуальное наслаждение.

[vsha.livejournal.com]

русскоязычно agree

[larvatus.livejournal.com]

Спасибо Вам на добром слове. Из алкоголической поэзии архаичной формы, рекомендую заодно Дилана Томаса.