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Joseph Brodsky - Part Of Speech

...and when "the future" is uttered, swarms of mice
rush out of the Russian language and gnaw a piece
of ripened memory which is twice 
as hole-ridden as real cheese.
After all these years it hardly matters who
or what stands in the corner, hidden by heavy drapes,
and your mind resounds not with a seraphic "doh",
only their rustle. Life, that no one dares
to appraise, like that gift horse's mouth,
bares its teeth in a grin at each
encounter. What gets left of a man amounts
to a part. To his spoken part. To a part of speech.

Added: on March 4th, 2005 at 4:51 PM | Viewed: 1895 times | Comments (1)


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Poet: Joseph Brodsky
Poem: Part Of Speech

Comment 1 of 1, added on March 4th, 2005 at 4:51 PM.

You tried way to hard to make your poem deep. You made your poem wayyyyy to deep, it sound so UNEDUCATED! Swarms of mice came out of the russian language? How old are you like 121

nicoe from Bosnia and Herzegovina

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