In a message dated 9/28/00 10:20:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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She also likes to use the moon as a symbol of what impossible thing can be
achieved versus what cannot be done, "Don't Interrupt the Sorrow" with
"...we
walked on the moon, you be polite." or "Willie" with "...he stood looking
through the lace at the face of the conquered
moon." >>
An even better example, in my opinion, is from Love or Money:
Vaguely she floats and lacelike
Blown in like a curtain on the night wind
She's nebulous and naked
He wonders where she's been
He grabs at the air because there's nothing there
Her evasiveness stings him
With long legs-long lonely legs
Bruised from banging into things
One day he was standing just outside her door
He was carrying an armload of bright balloons
She just laughed
She said she heard him knocking
And she teased him for the moon
"Is one the moon, dear clown,
Tied to a string for me?"
He tried but he could not get it down
For truth or for mystery
He tried but he could not get it down
For love or money
