From marek@enteract.com Wed Jul 8 02:38:07 CDT 1998 Article: 142169 of rec.arts.poems Path: newsfeed.enteract.com!news.enteract.com!not-for-mail From: marek@enteract.com (Marek Lugowski) Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems Subject: Re: The Heartbroken Brick / Marek / ... a brick-redeeming ending Date: 8 Jul 1998 07:25:19 GMT Organization: -=-=----=-= -= = ===- =- http://www.enteract.com/~marek Lines: 58 Message-ID: <6nv6sv$7au$1@eve.enteract.com> References: <1998070806135000.CAA11474@ladder01.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.54.252.1 Xref: newsfeed.enteract.com rec.arts.poems:142169 X-IMAPbase: 1513428020 0000000001 X-UID: 1 Status: O Content-Length: 2006 In article <1998070806135000.CAA11474@ladder01.news.aol.com>, VassarS1 wrote an incomplete poem, to which I justifiably graft: >Last night as I walked by the brickyard > A low, mournful sobbing I heard >From the top of a large heap of discards-- > A sadness beyond spoken word. >One lowly brick sighed to his neighbors: > "Great buildings and walls you once made; >The rest of you all knew fulfillment... > But me,I have never been laid! > > >"I came out of the kiln cracked and crooked; > My sides were not straight, but askew. >When the mason looked over my shipment, > He said, 'This poor brick just won't do!' >My mates were all snatched up and matched up > In neat, tidy rows where they stayed; >But I was flung out with the discards > And told I would never get laid! > > >"It's a cold, lonely life on the outside. > You may think that a brick's hard and strong; >But we all need support from companions, > And mine told me I do not belong! >Since I don't fit the mold, I'm rejected. > A terrible price have I paid! >And my poor little clay heart is broken > Because I will never get laid!" [to be sang with an Irish brogue:] O Sweet Brick do come, be laid on the inside! You might think this girl so hard so Hmong But I am Irish and I am open and sentimental Do be, do be my key and I will sing you a song With a little help from my freckled hands. O Terrific Prince: You've made a maid! Let not your tiny tiny tiny clay heart be broken Being as that you are just about to get laid And not too far from the yards of Hobboken. > -- Vassar Smith > >"The unlived life is not worth examining." -- VassarS1 -- Marek sleepless not in seattle -- ------------------- : http://www.enteract.com/~marek : ------------------ 1. clickable geomap : magical mystery tour last add : Kristie's postcard 2. also : HalinaFAQ: Halina Pos'wiatowska Translation Project 3. and : A Small Garlic Press (ASGP): a 501c3 Nonprofit Corp