Poetry For People / The Famous Stuff
This is the second poem in my “Icarus” trilogy. Finally. Click HERE to see the first one. Then take a look at the one below.
Icarus by Edward Field
Only the feathers floating around the hat
Showed that anything more spectacular had occurred
Than the usual drowning. The police preferred to ignore
The confusing aspects of the case,
And the witnesses ran off to a gang war.
So the report filed and forgotten in the archives read simply
“Drowned,” but it was wrong: Icarus
Had swum away, coming at last to the city
Where he rented a house and tended the garden.
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“That nice Mr. Hicks” the neighbors called him,
Never dreaming that the gray, respectable suit
Concealed arms that had controlled huge wings
Nor that those sad, defeated eyes had once
Compelled the sun. And had he told them
They would have answered with a shocked, uncomprehending stare
No, he could not disturb their neat front yards;
Yet all his books insisted that this was a horrible mistake:
What was he doing aging in a suburb?
Can the genius of the hero fall
To the middling stature of the merely talented?
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And nightly Icarus probes his wound
And daily in his workshop, curtains carefully drawn,
Constructs small wings and tries to fly
To the lighting fixture on the ceiling:
Fails every time and hates himself for trying.
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He had thought himself a hero, had acted heroically,
And dreamt of his fall, the tragic fall of the hero;
But now rides commuter trains,
Serves on various committees,
And wishes he had drowned.
Do anything to just feel better….
My poor boyfriend is not feeling good. He seems to be catching a cold that came on fast Friday afternoon and has gotten worse over night.
He is on his way out to go play racquetball right now in the hopes that his friend will hit him square in the middle of his forehead and break up all the congestion.
I, on the other hand, am sitting here wishing him well, typing, drinking coffee and eating Peanut M & M’s. Dark Chocolate Peanut M & M’s. Yum!
I do what I can.
Later, we are going to a Communion party for one of my cousin’s sons. I’ll be taking my Mother with me and the sick boyfriend if he feels like going.
I told him Id make him a nice playlist for today that we can listen to in the car on the way there. I have had this idea in the hopper for awhile and here is the perfect lead in. Songs that just make you feel better….
And I think, since I’m feeing so good (knock on wood) I am going to make a sick list too!
How productive of me on the weekend! Like I said, I do what I can.
Load up on the cold medicine, grab more tissues, your favorite blankie, and curl up on your couch with a bad movie and listen to:
Then when you’re done with that, get outside and take a walk or drive to this:
I don’t know where you are in the world but it’s sunny and pleasant in Chicago after a cold, pitiful, rainy week.
It’s Saturday and the air is fresh and clean! Well, clean enough.
And tonight don’t forget to watch our CHICAGO BULLS basketball team in Boston! One more games guys!! You can do it!!
Enjoy your day! GO BULLS!!
The Sick List
1. Down With The Sickness / Disturbed
2. Subterranean Homesick Blues / Bob Dylan
3. Tennessee Homesick Blues / Dolly Parton
4. Disease / Matchbox Twenty
5. Bleeding Love / Leona Lewis
6. In The Blood / Better Than Ezra
7. Lovesick / Michal
8. Blood Red Summer / Coheed & Cambria
9. Bad Medicine / Bon Jovi
10. Cold / Crossfade
11. Doctor! Doctor! / The Thompson Twins
12. Blood And Roses / The Smithereens
13. Infected / Rides Again
14. Everything That Makes Me Sick / Almost
15. Unwell / Matchbox Twenty
16. Sick With It / The Gossip
17. Hotel Illness / The Black Crowes
18. Hot Blooded / Foreigner
19. The Remedy (I Won’t Worry) / Jason Mraz
20. Bleed It Out / Linkin Park
21. Medicine And Gasoline / Lucky Boys Confusion
22. Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) / Concrete Blonde
23. Cold / Matchbox Twenty
24. Just Like A Pill / Pink
25. Santa Monica / Everclear
26. My Immortal / Evanescence
27. Remedy / The Black Crowes
Ya’ Just Feel Better
1. Just Feel Better / Santana (feat. Steven Tyler)
2. Semi-Charmed Life / Third Eye Blind
3. Good / Better Than Ezra
4. Better Not Look Down / B.B. King
5. Fresh Feeling / Eels
6. I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better / The Byrds
7. Some Kind Of Wonderful / Grand Funk Railroad
8. Good Day / Jewel
9. Things Can Only Get Better / Howard Jones
10. I Feel So Good / Richard Thompson
11. 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) / Simon & Garfunkel
12. I Feel Alright / Steve Earle
13. I’m Alright / Kenny Loggins
14. Wonderful Day / O.A.R.
15. Because I’m Awesome / The Dollyrots
16. When Will I Be Loved / Linda Ronstadt
17. Wonderful Night / Fatboy Slim
18. Lake Shore Drive / Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah
19. You Better You Bet / The Who
20. Cum On Feel The Noize / Quiet Riot
21. Ray Of Light / Madonna
Cool Word of the Day!
A little dangerous too…
Azimuth (noun)
Definition: The horizontal angular distance from a fixed reference direction to a position, object, or object referent, from a point due South, usually measured clockwise along the horizon; the lateral deviation of a projectile or bomb.
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