Wednesday, August 22, 2012

I Keep a Dog and Bark Myself















THE SURLY ONE

Theodore Roethke

1

When true love broke my heart in half,
I took the whiskey from the shelf,
And told my neighbors when to laugh
I keep a dog, and bark myself.

2

Ghost cries out to ghost–
But whose afraid of that?
I feel those shadows most
That start from my own feet.






8 comments:

  1. You're repeating yourself (Citizen Kane etc.)

    Also. Bwahahaha! You both played in a band named after a brand of condoms? Why oh why didn't I know this before?

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  2. Heh, I just noticed the double and removed it. I'd forgot to when I remembered the KITH skit.

    It would be more accurate to say we both *partied* in a band named after a brand of condoms.

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  3. Columbus and suburbs tips the vote?

    Is this a prediction for 2012, or a historical observation?

    OH-15, which is "my" district, elected Boehner protege and bankster lobbyist Steve Stivers in 2010, over a very decent first-term Dem, Mary Jo Kilroy.

    That's what happens when your Democratic president is a gooper in disguise.

    P.S. The Columbus suburbs are full of comfortable goopers.
    ~

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  4. Obama could personally disembowel brown people while screaming Die! Otherfuckingmay Uslimay! on national TV on an hourly basis and goopers would call him a socialist traitor.

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  5. Why would Akin quit? This is a man who once had his own spinoff.

    I assume your assumption is correct but if pays more attention to this crap than I because he's got issues.

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  6. Hey, I left you a present at your place. Is that a Peter Frampton reference in my store?

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  7. Columbus Dems seem to run as Repubs locally from what I see, the Cleveland metro's pretty Democrat to a fault and sometimes I forget that the rest of Ohiostan exists and that the Republican voters there are not like the ones I grew up with.

    Speaking of which, WTF Dreher? I know being Eastern Orthodox is esoteric and trendy over here, but over there it's a kinder gentler machine gun hand of the state and occasionally a toxic nationalistic thing and therefore the point of the ladies in balaclavas is missed completely. and this is from someone who ideologically swings more his way than others!).

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  8. Some of us took our music seriously, unlike the reedlickers on the other side of the formation.

    Remember this when a Democratic candidate says something mindbogglingly stupid, patently untrue, aggressively antiscience, and patently and undeniably misogynistic, as a window into the fundamental dishonesty of his position on a critical issue, and Biden calls him/her urging quit.

    Fixed that for you. It needed it. Badly.

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