Fantasy of Fewer Possessions
One plate.
One tool for cutting.
One piece of string,
tied around a wrist.
Unfinished linen gown
dragging through the dirt,
earth clutching at the hem,
don’t leave me.
One sky to hold all the stars,
one plastic bag full of
one million goldfish.
That's clean and different, in a good Dorothea Lasky way, but it actually has some realnness, however hidden.
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I like the simplicity of this, how it moves from the prosaic to the astonishing, like that "sky to hold all the stars", from the holding on to the letting go.
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I don't live by the poem's credo, but I surely admire it. (Guess that makes me a hypocrite?). Each image, but especially the goldfish at the end, gives new life to this valuable old idea.
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