A poem by Thomas Thornburg
from Ancient Letters (1987)
After the last trick had been turned in the game,
The bumpers drunk, the galley fallen apart;
The lying maid having drunk to a different name
A cup for the journey, so to speak, at the start;
One wonders whether that harried dame ever thought
In terms of that fat man she and [...]
Agrippina
May 26th, 2008 · No Comments
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A journal entry in the old style
Ah.. rested at last. Not well-rested, mind you, but some-rested, and better than the last few nights.
Friday night, trying to sleep, and the nose would not stop dripping, so every ten minutes or so I had to blow it out. Then it dried up suddenly and swelled and closed [...]
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