In the oceans are some old fish reading books about tropical fish.
The oldest fish is less than fifty thousand years old.
There is a country on earth whose name is Romania.
In Romania the taste runs to opera and short romantic novels.
I believe it was a Romanian who invented the gadget
For making ice cubes, later in his life he retired
To a tributary of the Amaz(:m, high up in the cleqr air
Of Peru. He was the leader of a clan who worshipped tropical fish.
There are newspapers, and every now and then an ocean liner sinks
Provoking five:inch headlines, and later, short romantic novels.
Isn't it curious, even romantic, that turtles still exist?
The pace of the world is so fast, and yet turtles still thrive.
There used to be a lot of good romantic operas written every year.
Perhaps the best one was written by Wagner and is called the Ring.
His own life could be the subject of a romantic opera as is often
The case: a composer's art mirrors his life. Also, the way a
composer dies
Is often a strange summary of the way a composer lived.
Everybody on earth's life is a good subject for a romantic opera,
But it is doubtful if any more good romantic operas \vill be written.
Composers are no longer concerned with the romantic world.
Rachel Hadas
BELATED CONDOLENCE
to
Richard Reid
Quel giorno piu
...
Her death all over. First the funeral
you saw through trees, through clouds, across the ocean,
saw behind stars, through windows, in strange faces
eyes benign but catlike, shining pupils
fixed on an innermost intimatest target.
Pick up a page of poetry, it tells
eternally of how the studious pair
looked up from their snatched lesson
