[New-Poetry] Thinking about the human condition

[James Cervantes]

Well, it would be interesting to run a "last photo" of him through one of
those photo morphing things that show what he might look like around 95.
 Perhaps then we could keep an eye out.
Good to see this poem again.

- Jim

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:57 PM, David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu> wrote:

> Weldon Kees is 95 years old today.  Perhaps. . . .  I wonder if he's still
> in Mexico?  Anyone seen him lately?
>
> *The Beach in August*
>
> The day the fat woman
> In the bright blue bathing suit
> Walked into the water and died,
> I thought about the human
> Condition. Pieces of old fruit
> Came in and were left by the tide.
>
> What I thought about the human
> Condition was this: old fruit
> Comes in and is left, and dries
> In the sun. Another fat woman
> In a dull green bathing suit
> Dives into the water and dies.
> The pulmotors glisten. It is noon.
>
> We dry and die in the sun
> While the seascape arranges old fruit,
> Coming in with the tide glistening
> At noon. A woman, moderately stout,
> In a nondescript bathing suit,
> Swims to a pier. A tall woman
> Steps toward the sea. One thinks about the human
> Condition. The tide goes in and goes out.
>
> --Weldon Kees
>
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