tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post3756304589200620121..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: Did the MomCat Emergency Alert System Work?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-91032090885433949392014-09-24T13:40:39.114-04:002014-09-24T13:40:39.114-04:00i'm happy that your cat has reappeared
James ...<i>i'm </i>happy<i> that your </i>cat<i> has reappeared</i><br /><br />James Tate<br /><br /><b>Happy As The Day Is Long</b><br /><br />I take the long walk up the staircase to my secret room.<br />Today's big news: they found Amelia Earhart's shoe, size 9.<br />1992: Charlie Christian is bebopping at Minton's in 1941.<br />Today, the Presidential primaries have failed us once again.<br />We'll look for our excitement elsewhere, in the last snow<br />that is falling, in tomorrow's Gospel Concert in Springfield.<br />It's a good day to be a cat and just sleep.<br />Or to read the Confessions of Saint Augustine.<br />Jesus called the sons of Zebedee the Sons of Thunder.<br />In my secret room, plans are hatched: we'll explore the Smoky Mountains.<br />Then we'll walk along a beach: Hallelujah!<br />(A letter was just delivered by Overnight Express--<br />it contained nothing of importance, I slept through it.)<br />(I guess I'm trying to be "above the fray.")<br />The Russians, I know, have developed a language called "Lincos"<br />designed for communicating with the inhabitants of other worlds.<br />That's been a waste of time, not even a postcard.<br />But then again, there are tree-climbing fish, called anabases.<br />They climb the trees out of stupidity, or so it is said.<br />Who am I to judge? I want to break out of here.<br />A bee is not strong in geometry: it cannot tell<br />a square from a triangle or a circle.<br />The locker room of my skull is full of panting egrets.<br />I'm saying that strictly for effect.<br />In time I will heal, I know this, or I believe this.<br />The contents and furnishings of my secret room will be labeled<br />and organized so thoroughly it will be a little frightening.<br />What I thought was infinite will turn out to be just a couple<br />of odds and ends, a tiny miscellany, miniature stuff, fragments<br />of novelties, of no great moment. But it will also be enough,<br />maybe even more than enough, to suggest an immense ritual and tradition.<br />And this makes me very happy. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b></b>mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com