My favorites are "Of Heaven" -------------------------------------- Who are these shades we wait for and believe will come some evening in limousines from Heaven? The rose though it knows is throatless and cannot say. My mortal half laughs. The code and the message are not the same. And what is an angel but a ghost in drag? ------------------------------------------------- and this one "Texas Suite"
-------------------------------------------------- The Murder Burger is served right here. You need not wait at the gate of Heaven for unleavened death. You can be a goner on this very corner. Mayonnaise, onions, dominance of flesh. If you wish to eat it you must feed it "Yall come back." "You bet."
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Re: Best Stan Rice poem:
Date: 2011-06-28 02:29 pm (UTC)--------------------------------------
Who are these shades we wait for and believe
will come some evening in limousines
from Heaven?
The rose
though it knows
is throatless
and cannot say.
My mortal half laughs.
The code and the message are not the same.
And what is an angel
but a ghost in drag?
-------------------------------------------------
and this one "Texas Suite"
--------------------------------------------------
The Murder Burger
is served right here.
You need not wait
at the gate of Heaven
for unleavened death.
You can be a goner
on this very corner.
Mayonnaise, onions, dominance of flesh.
If you wish to eat it
you must feed it
"Yall come back."
"You bet."