On 17 Dec 2001, at 20:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> do you all enjoy reading poetry, as
> opposed to song lyrics? if so, whose? 

Crawling from under my heavy work load to say....

I love poetry.  My favorite poem is from Henry Dumas (whose story is 
unbelievably tragic) - "If I Were Earth" from the volume "Knees of a Natural 
Man":

If I Were Earth

Each tear that fell
from the crushed 
moons of your face,
stabbed me,
broke and split
into a thousand pains.
But I held out my arms,
and not one did I miss,
no, not one did I miss,
no not one pain.
And if I don't let
you soak into me
and bring me up,
if I don't let you seep
deep into me
and teach me,
then you can cry in
the morning to the sun,
and tell him to rise up
and burn me away.

Brenda

n.p. - Vince Guaraldi - "Skating"

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