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Re: Topless Gratitude
Tom:
Thank you for trying to post the poem Auntie E. referred to, but all that
came through was gibberish (see below). Where can we find a copy of the real
poem?
Gregory C. Dickison
Lawyer & Counselor at Law
Post Office Box 8846
312 South Main Street
Moscow, Idaho 83843
(208) 882-4009
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen@moscow.com>
To: "Joan Opyr" <auntiestablishment@hotmail.com>; <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 12:06 PM
Subject: RE: Topless Gratitude
> Greetings Visionaires -
>
> Vary well said and a big touche' to Ms Opyr.
>
> To Mr Wilson: Your malicious attempt at sarcasm (without a valid point I
> might add) could have been at least funny. For everybody's info I have
> posted Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" below.
>
> Daddy
>
> You do not do, you do not do
> Any more, black shoe
> In which I have lived like a foot
> For thirty years, poor and white,
> Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.
>
> Daddy, I have had to kill you.
> You died before I had time---
> Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,
> Ghastly statue with one gray toe
> Big as a Frisco seal
>
> And a head in the freakish Atlantic
> Where it pours bean green over blue
> In the waters off the beautiful Nauset.
> I used to pray to recover you.
> Ach, du.
>
> In the German tongue, in the Polish town
> Scraped flat by the roller
> Of wars, wars, wars.
> But the name of the town is common.
> My Polack friend
>
> Says there are a dozen or two.
> So I never could tell where you
> Put your foot, your root,
> I never could talk to you.
> The tongue stuck in my jaw.
>
> It stuck in a barb wire snare.
> Ich, ich, ich, ich,
> I could hardly speak.
> I thought every German was you.
> And the language obscene
>
> An engine, an engine,
> Chuffing me off like a Jew.
> A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen.
> I began to talk like a Jew.
> I think I may well be a Jew.
>
> The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna
> Are not very pure or true.
> With my gypsy ancestress and my weird luck
> And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack
> I may be a bit of a Jew.
>
> I have always been sacred of you,
> With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo.
> And your neat mustache
> And your Aryan eye, bright blue.
> Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You----
>
> Not God but a swastika
> So black no sky could squeak through.
> Every woman adores a Fascist,
> The boot in the face, the brute
> Brute heart of a brute like you.
>
> You stand at the blackboard, daddy,
> In the picture I have of you,
> A cleft in your chin instead of your foot
> But no less a devil for that, no not
> Any less the black man who
>
> Bit my pretty red heart in two.
> I was ten when they buried you.
> At twenty I tried to die
> And get back, back, back to you.
> I thought even the bones would do.
>
> But they pulled me out of the sack,
> And they stuck me together with glue.
> And then I knew what to do.
> I made a model of you,
> A man in black with a Meinkampf look
>
> And a love of the rack and the screw.
> And I said I do, I do.
> So daddy, I'm finally through.
> The black telephone's off at the root,
> The voices just can't worm through.
>
> If I've killed one man, I've killed two---
> The vampire who said he was you
> And drank my blood for a year,
> Seven years, if you want to know.
> Daddy, you can lie back now.
>
> There's a stake in your fat black heart
> And the villagers never liked you.
> They are dancing and stamping on you.
> They always knew it was you.
> Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through.
>
> Although the analogy may be a bit over-extended, it gets the point across.
> Thank you, Ms Opyr.
>
> Take care,
>
> Tom Hansen
>
> ***********************************
> Work like you don't need the money.
> Love like you've never been hurt.
> Dance like nobody's watching.
>
> - Author Unknown
> ***********************************
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joan Opyr [mailto:auntiestablishment@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 11:26 AM
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: Re: Topless Gratitude
>
>
>
> Nate Wilson wrote:
> >For years we have been trying to convince the women of the
> >Palouse to resubmit themselves to a primitive male-dominated society.
> >And here, finally, we have the first stages initiated voluntarily by
> >Dasiy. As a sign of our gratitude the CPP would like to pay for lip
> >plates and neckrings at the Falling Moon for Daisy and any other women
> >who have submitted themselves to us in this way. In addition Daisy has
> >also been chosen to be the first among many to bear children to the new
> >chieftan.
> > We are extremely grateful and hope by next summer to have them
> >beating our laundry on the rocks down by the river
>
> Every woman loves a fascist? Sorry, Nate, but Sylvia Plath beat you to
this
>
> one four decades ago. I refer you to her poem, "Daddy." You might find
it
> interesting in more ways than one.
>
> Ach, du,
> Auntie Establishment
>
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