The Ridiculous Shape of Longing

/, Blesok no. 44/The Ridiculous Shape of Longing

The Ridiculous Shape of Longing

The Ridiculous Shape of Longing
Possible Cures for Beauty
Two Thousand Poems
Sonnet Visiting at Night
A Fiction Reprised (retelling Borges)
We All Live in Exile
A Good Rage
Bestseller

Sleep faster.
Leave your memory in the war.
Love completely and perfectly.
With your poetry, override the moon.
Accompany the butterfly when it visits the flower.
Move remorse to the front of your stable.
Excise doubt from fiction.
Feast for a lifetime on the bite the ant took from the pear.
Keep trying close to your heart.
Remember that someone invented the violin.
Keep an eye out for stray heads with massive noses.
Gorge on the fluff of peace.
Feel happy and sad that nothing ever changes.
Treat fame like the ubiquitous spine of the soldier.
Rub someone in your eyes and split yourself open over a rock for them.
Reach the gamut and repeat repeat.
Shelter in isolation.
Fill your hollow flesh with things unproven.
On a clear night, look for a single star.
Leap up high cheekbones and jump!
Describe it.

AuthorM.T.C. Cronin
2018-08-21T17:23:18+00:00 September 1st, 2005|Categories: Poetry, Blesok no. 44|0 Comments