[New-Poetry] Sonnet: La Malcontenta

[Skip Fox]

How 'bout something sappy with a Tweedy-Bird reference in it? Like "I
thought I saw a pussy cat?"

 

On second thought, why don't I save up for a lobotomy?

 

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Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 1:39 PM
To: Anny Ballardini
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Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Sonnet: La Malcontenta

 

Thanks for the suggestion, Anny. I know what the word means.

Hal

"Those who cast the ballots decide nothing.
Those who count the ballots decide everything."
                          --Joseph Stalin


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On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com>
wrote:

Jaysoos, Hal.
I would change the title. Malcontenta has a naughty hue, something close to
stubborn and proud, never satisfied, disobedient. 

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Halvard Johnson <halvard at gmail.com> wrote:

Sonnet: La Malcontenta

Nowadays, she is away a lot, away from home, from her kids, 
who've learned to deal, to take care of themselves and each
other. She loads her little truck with her wares and drives off,
waving into the rear-view mirror. She tweets them from little

towns in the countryside where she (on good days) sells her
wares, comes back empty. Her oldest son in Afghanistan, she 
tweets him too. He always says, "im ok mom," but she wonders,
and wonders how he could be. She voted for Obama too,

but now she wonders. On the road a lot and sometimes over
night if the truck isn't empty, she'd like to be home with her kids
but business is business, and if she doesn't sell, the kids don't
eat. There are men . . . well, yes, there have to be men, right?

The kid in Afghanistan, he tweets her with "hey mom im dyng."
It's the last one. She tweets him a hug and a kiss.



Hal

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