Lefurgey
I hereby do bequeath my love to the following items.
a parlour stove, one lamp
a fist full of hair from the darker horse.
one dwelling
a house
7 hours of visits at the lounge table
1 riding sleigh.
6 chairs and a harness
to hold you in
a carpet, a bed
1 set of slightly worn slippers
or sheets
take your pick
the tall clock on the north wall that rests against its shadow in the open kitchen;
the north wall
our saturday mornings
our saturday afternoons
lemon meringue pie
plate
as for money
I can give you what I have
three hundred dollars to be paid in instalments of twenty dollars a year
commencing one year after
the bills are paid
signed in the year of our lord nineteen hundred and a day.
a parlour stove, one lamp
a fist full of hair from the darker horse.
one dwelling
a house
7 hours of visits at the lounge table
1 riding sleigh.
6 chairs and a harness
to hold you in
a carpet, a bed
1 set of slightly worn slippers
or sheets
take your pick
the tall clock on the north wall that rests against its shadow in the open kitchen;
the north wall
our saturday mornings
our saturday afternoons
lemon meringue pie
plate
as for money
I can give you what I have
three hundred dollars to be paid in instalments of twenty dollars a year
commencing one year after
the bills are paid
signed in the year of our lord nineteen hundred and a day.
posted by MissWanda at 3:21 p.m.
7 Comments:
it's beautiful.
i love this, wo. i'll tell you why in person.
$20 a month after the bills are paid? sounds like the kind of funding set up by the league of canadian poets.
gb
thanks b.
fn: if only they'd give me 20/mth. They won't even return my phone calls.
Well, seeing as I haven't yet paid off my bills -- I am guaranteed to be disqualified!
To be honest, the funding sitch (from what i've seen) are distinctly prohibitive. I suspect it is designed to help a few insiders get funded from the pool of money they collect from schmucks like me that get none.
Ha ha -- I'm not bitter. I'm just out $175.
GB
Wanda, when can I come to CANADA and buy you a drink?
fn: What would happen if we, say, started giving them money? (Reverse something or other) Wait, what am I saying.
cc: hell, anytime. I should really put some reading together or something for you and some of your kind. We should really be talking about things. In person too.
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