Frost said
Frost said, “And they,
since they Were not the one dead,
turned to their affairs.”
Did he know
that not-dying,
that is a death, too?
They were his.
How could he not know?
And yet, they were not his.
Frost said, “And they,
since they Were not the one dead,
turned to their affairs.”
Did he know
that turning to their own affairs…
that is a death, too.
It is a death for them
not-dead
and another death for he who was, already dead
Frost said, “And they,
since they Were not the one dead,
turned to their affairs.”
November 4, 2007 at 12:29 am
Just for the record, the quote in that poem is from one of the greatest poems ever written, “Out, Out-” by Robert Frost.
I deliberately messed with his line breaks to create an end rhyme between “said” and “dead”. After doing this, I suppose I got what I deserved… I kept trying to create an extra space between stanzas and couldn’t get the blog to pick them up. The poem as written is broken down into 3-line stanzas, with the refrain occuring every 3rd verse.
If you haven’t read “Out out” Google and it right now and read it… It’s way better than anything you’re going to read here.