{"id":1166,"date":"2011-06-30T02:47:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T02:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?page_id=1166"},"modified":"2011-06-30T12:40:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T12:40:16","slug":"clinton-van-inman-611","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/clinton-van-inman-611\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Van Inman, 7\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SYLVIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong> I hear they have placed<br \/>\nA pretty blue plague<br \/>\nHigh above your flat<br \/>\nSo that tourists can find you<br \/>\nAnd say that this is the spot<br \/>\nWhere you killed yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Lucky girl, you modern Sappho<br \/>\nTo take the quantum leap<br \/>\nLike a comet to take your place<br \/>\nAmong the darkest regions of empty space<br \/>\nWith a brilliance that few can keep<br \/>\nAnd even less the mind to know<br \/>\nWhere no dull planet can perturb you<br \/>\nAs fallen flowers have no faces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHITMAN REVISTED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I heard the learned astronomers proclaim<br \/>\nFrom proofs and charts and periodic tables<br \/>\nWith H&amp;R diagrams, and overheads and visuals,<br \/>\nWith projectors and all to show the history of stars<br \/>\nFrom flowers to quarks and on to quasars<br \/>\nThen the latest theory that everything is string<br \/>\nNot like strings sticking out of their backs,<br \/>\nLike children talking of tinker toys,<br \/>\nErector sets, and building blocks,<br \/>\nThe blue print for everything in a box<br \/>\nAs their greatest mysteries unfolded,<br \/>\nFrom hydrogen to hardware, from hogs to Hector,<br \/>\nFrom hairy apes to hippies, from hedgerows to helicopters,<br \/>\nFrom double helix to haloes, everything up the chain.<br \/>\nBut among all the applause, I felt sick<br \/>\nAnd arose and went outside for some fresh air<br \/>\nWhere looking up I beheld the stars<br \/>\nUntil I discovered I was in the planetarium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYLVIA I hear they have placed A pretty blue plague High above your flat So that tourists can find you And say that this is the spot Where you killed yourself. 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