Friday, August 1, 2008

On The Metro

I was listening to WRAS 88.5 (the state college radio station...yeah I actually listen to ours, and really like it) when I heard this poem. What's weird is not that there's a radio program dedicated to playing audio versions of poems, but that in between all of them the DJ played a song by Behemoth. Anyway, I really liked it. So you will too.

"On The Metro"
by C.K. Williams


a memory—a girl I’d mooned for from afar, across the table from me in the library in school now, our feet I thought touching, touching even again, and then, with all I craved that touch to mean,
(to my relief not looking back), and I allow myself the thought that though I must be to her again as senseless as that table of my youth, as wooden, as unfeeling, perhaps there was a moment I was not.

You can find more great modern poems here. You know, if you're into that stuff. Whatev. If I don't have to read and analyze anymore John Updike, I'm peachy.