Tuesday, March 12, 2013

TC: Robert Creeley: After Lorca


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Malaguilla, Provincia de Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain: photo by Häkan Svensson, 2004



for M. Marti



The church is a business, and the rich
are the business men.

........................................... When they pull on the bells, the
poor come piling in and when a poor man dies, he has a wooden
cross, and they rush through the ceremony.

But when a rich man dies, they
drag out the Sacrament
and a golden Cross, and go doucement, doucement
to the cemetery.

And the poor love it
and think it's crazy.




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Olivar en Alcalá la Real, Jaén, España: photo by Michelangelo-36, 2005



Robert Creeley: After Lorca, 1952

3 comments:

VANITAS said...

I love this poem. It really rocks. Thanks for putting it here (heart). And the church in the distance puts me into Tuscan dreams.

TC said...

And if Bob were here he might say, It's crazy.

VANITAS said...

And, You dig?