This Poem was Submitted By: John R. Birkbeck On Date: 2001-06-17 15:21:00 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Iowa City, Je Reviens

As Denis Diderot put it (I translate recklessly) It'd be better to be  crazy among the mad than to be sane alone. I remember standing in front of the iron elevator door which even then was forty years old waiting to ascend to the bowels of  academic fright. I blew the exam and blew still another due to short circuitry involving linear logic and the romance of sleight-of-mind. I remember  the posthumous  advice of  --again-- Monsieur Diderot upon the loss of my haunted Irish girl; "... Love robs  those who have it of their wit and gives  it to those who have none..." Je reviens, Iowa City, je reviendrai.

Copyright © June 2001 John R. Birkbeck

Additional Notes:
This poem, in slightly different versions, was published in "Bee Hive" and in "Longitudes."


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