[Reader-list] [Fwd: [Poem of the week] BELIEFS]

[Vivek Narayanan]

Well...  In spite of all the darkness now, and the darkness to come-- 
happy new year, happy festive season.

Vivek

BELIEFS

 
/                             after Kristin Dimitrova/

//

Old people say that whenever
someone lights a cigarette from a candle
a sailor dies.

Among sailors, I suppose,
there is a belief that when they shave
in a odd direction, an academic dies.

So they try not to shave.
The point is that we think
About each other.


© 2005, Gregory O'Donoghue


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