August 20, 2009

Mags and Megs Read a Book

"The old music man gave up smoking;
offering to the gods' frustration.

The gray child born in January left
spring in a drought and desolation.

Old land corrupted with fraud and failure
demanded a virgin, but found none.

So old music man went under the knife;
the burnt leaves finally come undone."

-Jon Vowell (c) 2009

2 comments:

Joshua Andrew Smith said...

I got really excited because I thought I saw a seasonal theme with January being winter, virgins being spring, and burnt leaves being autumn, but upon further review I couldn't make it fit, so I resigned myself not to understand. You are destined to leave a great literary legacy, since it seems that my lack of ability to comprehend one's work is prerequisite to its being brilliant.

Halcyon said...

Unless the dunces form a confederacy against me, I'm unsure about my "great literary legacy". 8^)