| SlaughterHouse (r.i.p. Kurt Vonnegut jr.) |
Mongrol
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the pilgrim is dead
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in a meat locker
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under the bombs
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captured by time
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under the rubble
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scouting in circles
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all this happened
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more or less
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in the past
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and the future
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in a cage
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on display
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in front of a gun
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in the present
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dreaming true things
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if the accident will
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bring the pilgrim
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to his own death,
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under the rubble,
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pounded to dust,
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for the child's crusade.
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r.i.p Kurt
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12 Apr 07 |
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I'm reading that book now.
— Rixes
it's a must have in any library imo :) - a great book by a great author
— Mongrol
One of my favourite books is "The Sirens of Titan". I felt like I knew KV, I felt like he was my friend. This would be a good epitaph, minus the dashes.
— wendz
epitaph is right
— humblebee
ok ill try it without the dashes - commas instead?
— Mongrol
This is so sweet - I love that someone did this. What an amazing author.
— WordsAndMe
thank you Words - all respects to an even greater author, one whom i could not even begin to emulate
— Mongrol
i walked into my english class today and saw "rip kurt vonnegut" and something else and i had no idea what it meant and now i see your poem then i googled and realized he was a writer that died yesterday...well..yea..ive never read any of his work mabye i will...good poem though
— infinity
thanks infinity :)
— Mongrol
great
— jumpoline
ooh,
nice how you get the three *discrete* tenses in here and work them.
clever
— banditfemme
Eulogy!!!!
thats what i commented on one of the threads too..
this is an apt for a persoanlity like Kurt.
thnx Mongrol.
— trochee
*this is apt*
— trochee
thank you for all your welcome comments - Kurt was an inspiration from when i was quite young, his work allowed my brain to think in ways it may not have been able to consider on its own.
a master.
-Mong-
— Mongrol
not so bad writing and way better than kurt could ever do... if it weren't for fresh young things, kurt would have died 30 years ago. if he could have read this, maybe he'd have let you mow his lawn.
— unknown
hehe.. mow Kurts lawn ? yeh id have loved that totally
— Mongrol
skip divers with skummed playmates, barmaids counting us as shillings, young bright-eyed wordies stepping into the public loo for that first spectral exposure: "Poetry Critical".
vonnigut was a hack, but his readership needed simple-mindedness cause they couldn't read a fucking book by themselves.
i hate it when the people here whom i admire turn into slobbering retards.
— unknown
i got the bit about Vonnegut being a hack - but the rest didnt make much sense really...
comment seemed a bit Morish - toilet reference and all ...
still.. hack or not - i loved his work, your opinion has been noted and filed.
-Mong-
— Mongrol
I miss Kurt too but this doesn't work for me. Maybe with the slaughterhouse five reference I expected to see a stronger reference to falling out of time. My own prejudice! lol. Thanks for posting
— Trish77
This is a great poem, it is about Dresden I think, and about Kurt's experiences there?
— azure
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