Anglický jazyk

Is It All Right, Stuart?

Vydavateľstvo: iUniverse
Rok vydania: 2005
Formát: Hardback
Rozmer: 222 x 145 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9780595673230

RAMROD ROWS

How similar they are, tall straight rows

of soldiers and corn that grow so fast

you can hear them in the night, must step

back quickly to keep from being... Viac o knihe

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RAMROD ROWS

How similar they are, tall straight rows

of soldiers and corn that grow so fast

you can hear them in the night, must step

back quickly to keep from being hit by

the tears of joy that descend while

children become men as we watch

them sleeping.

Corn shoots climb like Jack on his beanstalk
to their certain end, tassels waving in the

wind like celebrities' handkerchiefs

under the noses of starstruck admirers,

hiding so much sweetness in their

budding kernels they begin a descent to

tasteless in the instant of picking,

stalks suddenly shorn and stacked in shocks

only if someone notices their loneliness

and binds them for company.

Young men

no more sophisticated than puppies grow

from baby to manhood long before experience

makes them mature, the methods of war instilled

as they stand ramrod, no tassels here,

only flags waving and feet marching

'hut, two, three, four," jab and pull,

aim and shoot, fall and die,

human stalks to turn brown,

dry up, and become fodder.