Chicago Impression
Lying still, let the citylights be the starlights
Let the mysterious Jazz fill the room
Bring me back to my senses
My past, my home
Night train swims silently,
Seclusively, like a giant anaconda
Creeping into people's lives
Creeping into people's dreams
Into the darker side of the town
Dim light hovering over the dining table
Over unfinished dishes and a beer bottle
The abandoned center stage
On the busy Michigan Avenue a ghost wanders around
Can't rest in peace, his tombstone taken from
The south pacific to the wall of the trendy skyscraper
Along with Russian, Egyptian, German collections
A fashionable antique, an exotic touch
"Your father and mother miss you forever", It reads
Who was he? What happened?
What tragedy hides behind?
The pedestrians come and go,
straight faces, couldn't care less
From the graffiti decorated highrise a young man looks out
Beautiful, sculpted torso
Framed in the decayed window
A perfect portrait of
Time's cruel joke
- Re: Chicago Impressionposted on 12/17/2004
I like this one too. - Re: Chicago Impressionposted on 12/17/2004
I'm in Chicago. It is a great city indeed. - Re: susanposted on 12/17/2004
susan自谦说她是个housewife。哪知道一出手就是重拳。
我这两天开车的时候就在想写一篇小文,暂时叫“housewife的反击”。
很多女作家其实都是housewife,美国女作erica Jung 就是在做housewife的时候,实在厌倦了,就开始写小说,一鸣惊人,第一本处女作《fear of flying》让她不用再做housewife了。
还有其他很多的例子。 写出来给大家看。 - Re: susanposted on 12/17/2004
第一本处女作
玛雅,她的第二本处女作是什么题目来着?:-) - Re: susanposted on 12/17/2004
骨头里挑鸡蛋。
不知道现在中国女人一生能作许多次处女吗?
八十一子 wrote:
玛雅,她的第二本处女作是什么题目来着?:-)第一本处女作 - Re: susanposted on 12/17/2004
Thanks for the compliments, 81 and Maya.
Drinking, have you noticed the skyscraper close to the sears tower decorated with, among other things, a piece of a Chinese commoner's tombstone? I always wonder why. - Re: susanposted on 12/18/2004
Seriously, try New Yorker or some poetry magazine, though not my personal favorite, this type of poems is very much in line with the modern urban life and with the trend of modern poetry writing. They are into the publishers' and the editors' favor I reckon. - Re: susanposted on 12/19/2004
susan wrote:
Thanks for the compliments, 81 and Maya.
Drinking, have you noticed the skyscraper close to the sears tower decorated with, among other things, a piece of a Chinese commoner's tombstone? I always wonder why.
That is a funny and good-looking building. I always wonder what the hell it is.
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