[New-Poetry] Sonnet: La Malcontenta

[Halvard Johnson]

Thanks for the suggestions, Skip. They've been filed.

Hal

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Those who count the ballots decide everything."
                          --Joseph Stalin


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On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Skip Fox <skip at louisiana.edu> wrote:

>  How ‘bout something sappy with a Tweedy-Bird reference in it? Like “I
> thought I saw a pussy cat?”
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> On second thought, why don’t I save up for a lobotomy?
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> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu [mailto:
> new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] *On Behalf Of *Halvard Johnson
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 02, 2009 1:39 PM
> *To:* Anny Ballardini
> *Cc:* NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp,Views
> *Subject:* Re: [New-Poetry] Sonnet: La Malcontenta
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> 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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> Halvard Johnson
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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.
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> Hal
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