The Millennium Issue:
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Dan Lukiv
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Coleridge
As opium-sweat
Beads on your brow
And your pay-the-rent
Newspaper columns remain
Closed tombs
In your ship-tossed
Mind,
Your wife grinds her teeth,
Your child nurses what's left,
And flames in the fireplace
Flicker with Wordsworth.
As opium-sweat
Mats your hair
And stings your eyes,
You compose
Your "Kubla Khan",
Like a deaf Beethoven,
Like a night-crazed Mozart,
Like a rabid dog
Alone on a raft
At sea.
~Dan Lukiv
Dan Lukiv: a poet, novelist, short story writer, article writer, editor, and teacher. His wife and he have four girls, two still at home.
© 2000 by Dan Lukiv. All Rights Reserved.
© 2000-2002 by Cayuse Press. All Rights Reserved.
This page updated April 23, 2002.