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March 23, 1999
| POETRY |
The Left Bank
Don't walk away, Renee,
I'm just getting warmed up
your body is like a river
and I'm going to swim across
I want to explore the left
bank of you then the right
you're the only woman in
this room with a sunflower
in her hair and you take
forever in the bathroom
making me wait finally you
emerge with a bottle of beer
in one hand an ashtray in
the other and say, "Okay, when
do we start?" you're looking
good tonight Renee with about
twenty-five bracelets on your
left wrist bandages on both legs
an ankle bracelet how I long
to see you wearing nothing but
that ankle bracelet all my poems
are about you tonight Renee
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David Lehman
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Commentarium (6 Comments)
This is the best poetry I've read in a long time. I'd love to read more of this quality, by Lehman and other poets.
Your magazine is absolutely marvelous. A couple of years ago, I ran into a poem of Mr. David Lehman on The New Yorker: "Who She Was". I must have passed it on to a couple dozens of friends one of my favourite pieces of poetry. I looked for Mr. Lehman's poetry books on the Internet, unsuccesfully. By chance (I was reading Charged), I ran into a series of his poems. Quite a nice surprise.
"The Left Bank" enhances the fact that the mind is ones best sex organ. Keep it up Mr. Lehman.
In David lehman's poen called "Sexism," he makes a clear distiguishment between men and women. The first thing that struck me odd about this poem was that he is a man, so how can he know the woman's happiest moment in life? But what I really would like to make a point about is men and women are not different at all. We are all the same species and we all have the same thoughts and feelings. In fact, I think the only differance is our physical makeup. In fact, the only reason men and women may act differently is because as children we are set with steryotypes. A man is like a woman, just as a black man is like a white man. thank you
It made me laugh at first but then it seemed all to true with the majority of men...
Your poems suck!
Now you say something