Destruction - Joanne Kyger

[Larry Robinson]

That is certainly what any self respecting bear would have done!




"Be joyful though you have considered all the facts."
    - Wendell Berry

> On Jun 4, 2018, at 7:55 AM, Ed Berger <eberger at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>> On Jun 3, 2018, at 10:38 PM, Larry Robinson <Lrobpoet at sonic.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Destruction 
>> 
>> First of all do you remember the way a bear goes through
>> a cabin when nobody is home? He goes through
>> the front door. I mean he really goes through it. Then
>> he takes the cupboard off the wall and eats a can of lard.
>> 
>> He eats all the apples, limes, dates, bottled decaffeinated
>> coffee, and 35 pounds of granola. The asparagus soup cans
>> fall to the floor. Yum! He chomps up Norwegian crackers
>> stashed for the winter. And the bouillon, salt, pepper,
>> paprika, garlic, onions, potatoes.
>> 
>> He rips the Green Tara
>> poster from the wall. Tries the Coleman Mustard. Spills
>> the ink, tracks in the flour. Goes up stairs and takes
>> a shit. Rips open the water bed, eats the incense and
>> drinks the perfume. Knocks over the Japanese tansu
>> and the Persian miniature of a man on horseback watching
>> a woman bathing.
>> 
>> Knocks Shelter, Whole Earth Catalogue,
>> Planet Drum, Northern Mists, Truck Tracks, and
>> Women's Sports into the oozing water bed mess.
>> 
>> He goes down stairs and out the back wall. He keeps on going
>> for a long way and finds a good cave to sleep it all off.
>> Luckily he ate the whole medicine cabinet, including stash
>> of LSD, Peyote, Psilocybin, Amanita, Benzedrine, Valium
>> and aspirin.
>> 
>>        
>>           - Joanne Kyger
>> 
>> 
>> 
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