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April 12, 2013

Child Abuse

 

  Eliot

T. S. Eliot

CHILD ABUSE ★

A tailgater bluesanelle, 12 April 2013 

 

April is the cruelest month, breeding

Winter weather of the basest breeding

While the infant March is still breast-feeding.

 

Fare thee well, grim month, you ancient March,

Get thee begone! Attention! Forward march!

April is the cruelest month, breeding

 

The most disgusting weather here in Maine

Long after states below us, in the main,

Have started weaning. March is still breast-feeding

 

Here while, there, crocuses abloom

Encourage daffodils to start to bloom.

Winter weather of the basest breeding

 

Squalls and wails away in April’s cradle

Here in Dresden Mills. April’s cradle,

Where the infant March is still breast-feeding,

 

Rocks and trundles with its little bundles

Of snow, sleet, and wind, those joyful bundles:

Winter weather of the basest breeding,

While the infant March goes on breast-feeding.

 

by Lewis Turco

 

© copyright 2013, Lewis Turco. All rights reserved.

★PLEASE NOTE: Certain readers are allowing the title of this poem to influence their ability to actually read what this poem says. The only "child" in the poem is the month of March which this year refuses to grow up and turn into spring. IT IS THE CHILD MARCH THAT IS ABUSING US ALL; the infant year is the abuser of us who live in Maine.

 

 

 

 

April 12, 2013 in Blues, Bluesanelles, Commentary, Humor & Satire, Literature, Poems, Poetry, Tailgaters |

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