<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">That is certainly what any self respecting bear would have done!<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>"Be joyful though you have considered all the facts."<div> - Wendell Berry</div></div><div><br>On Jun 4, 2018, at 7:55 AM, Ed Berger <<a href="mailto:eberger@sonic.net">eberger@sonic.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii">Perused this poem carefully several times, and am surprised that there is no reference to the volumes of verse he devours before leaving the cabin.<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 3, 2018, at 10:38 PM, Larry Robinson <<a href="mailto:Lrobpoet@sonic.net" class="">Lrobpoet@sonic.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""><span class=""></span></div><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; position: relative; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 21px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Destruction </span></h3><div class="post-header" style="line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="entry-content post-body" id="post-body-7952850760383968183" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.5; position: relative; width: 619px !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><br class="">First of all do you remember the way a bear goes through<br class="">a cabin when nobody is home? He goes through<br class="">the front door. I mean he really goes through it. Then<br class="">he takes the cupboard off the wall and eats a can of lard.<br class=""><br class="">He eats all the apples, limes, dates, bottled decaffeinated<br class="">coffee, and 35 pounds of granola. The asparagus soup cans<br class="">fall to the floor. Yum! He chomps up Norwegian crackers<br class="">stashed for the winter. And the bouillon, salt, pepper,<br class="">paprika, garlic, onions, potatoes.<br class=""><br class="">He rips the Green Tara<br class="">poster from the wall. Tries the Coleman Mustard. Spills<br class="">the ink, tracks in the flour. Goes up stairs and takes<br class="">a shit. Rips open the water bed, eats the incense and<br class="">drinks the perfume. Knocks over the Japanese tansu<br class="">and the Persian miniature of a man on horseback watching<br class="">a woman bathing.<br class=""><br class="">Knocks Shelter, Whole Earth Catalogue,<br class="">Planet Drum, Northern Mists, Truck Tracks, and<br class="">Women's Sports into the oozing water bed mess.<br class=""><br class="">He goes down stairs and out the back wall. He keeps on going<br class="">for a long way and finds a good cave to sleep it all off.<br class="">Luckily he ate the whole medicine cabinet, including stash<br class="">of LSD, Peyote, Psilocybin, Amanita, Benzedrine, Valium<br class="">and aspirin.</span><div class="" style="clear: both;"></div></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""> </div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; position: relative; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 21px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""> - Joanne Kyger</span></h3><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">PoetryLovers mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:PoetryLovers@lists.sonic.net" class="">PoetryLovers@lists.sonic.net</a><br class=""><a href="https://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/poetrylovers">https://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/poetrylovers</a><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></blockquote></body></html>