"Alan Dugan -_Poems_Six" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dugan Alan)

On Halloween 56
Introduction to the Telephone 57
Elegy for a Magician 58
Memories of 1936-7 59
On the Long Island Railroad System 60
Autobiographical Libation to Erato Muse of Lyric Poetry 61
Speech for Auden 62
Retraction 63
February Twelfth Birthday Statement 64
Poem 65
Spring Song for Symplocarpus Foetida and Me 66
Answer to the Rilke Question 67
Pretrial Hearing 68
Mock Translation from the Greek 69
On a Myth, On a Conventional Wisdom 70
Gargoyle's Song for the Warming Trend 71
On a Fallen Statue Forbidden to the Women at Pompeii 72
Perverse Explanation for Mutilated Statuary 73
On a Summer Goddess Who Should Be Nameless 74
Night Scene Before Combat 76

Notes About the Author 79


Takeoff on Armageddon
-for Ronald Reagan

As we tour the field in the pause
before the final battle, you can see
the flowers growing upside down
among the opposing troops. The roses
look like hairy turds in the dirt
and the insects are behaving like animals
gone wild in the stench because God rots.
They have stung everybody involved:
the forces of good and the forces of evil
are stuck: it's them against them,
they're exactly equal, exactly the same,
there's nothing to fight about, it's all over,
they have all been fundamentally stung.
They stand there forever, paralyzed in shit.
They wanted Armageddon, they got it.
This concludes the tour of the battlefield.

As we move beyond good and evil let us hope
a sexy hunger for catastrophe does not revive them
from their statuesque military postures because
the final battle will be, you know, the final battle,
and then there will be no more good, no more evil,
no more beyond good and no more beyond evil,