Sunday, May 03, 2009

From Don't you know it's a perfect world?

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Central Park
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By Sarah Shapiro
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I took you to the zoo today,
although you were not there.
We marvelled at the parrots,
slowed down going by the bears.
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I watched you as you watched the seals,
linked arms with you at snakes.
You gazed at the gorillas
for as long as wonder takes.
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It's not so hard being by yourself
It's not so hard to walk
along the paths of Central Park
if you've got with whom to talk.
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But to look a thing of beauty
very closely in its eyes,
that's going too far for a heart that knows
it's alone.

uuuuuuuuuuuuHence these lies.
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2 Comments:

Blogger kishke said...

Obviously, I'm ignorant of the context, but just on the face of it, this poem does not seem to fit in a collection entitled "Don't you know it's a perfect world."

May 5, 2009 at 2:00 PM  
Blogger rabbi neil fleischmann said...

It's a book of essays and poems. I think the title is meant to be somewhere between sincere and ironic. It comes from one of the true pieces, in which a dying friend, in all earnestness, poses this rhetorical question.

May 5, 2009 at 11:43 PM  

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