september 4--sucre de pastèque

[zyzyly]

in watermelon sugar the deeds were
done and done again as my life is
done in watermelon sugar.

Comments

[poetdan.livejournal.com]

I prefer rhinos to hippos hands down. And pigs are cool if they can fly.
As for Poor Richard, in Watermelon Sugar is clearly my personal favorite though it is probably not his best work. As a serious writer, I find his body of work a bit sideways. His poetry never made the cut very often, and his best books were really a kind of poetry....like the surrealism of Watermelon Sugar, and they appear more brilliant as time goes by.

[lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com]

His writing was uneven and unusual, but it was unique, and that is why I think I like it.

[(Anonymous)]

The Steve Irwin of piggies?

;)

[fivecats.livejournal.com]

Easily one of the most "gentle" writers I've ever read.

I collected all of his works from used book stores. Very fitting, I felt.

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[lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com]

Oh yes--all my copies of his books are used. I still have his obituary tucked into an old, fallingg-apart, copy of Trout fishing in America.

[fivecats.livejournal.com]

I still have his Rolling Stone obit in a box somewhere, too.

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[liminal-space.livejournal.com]

I JUST packed away my copy of watermelon sugar!

[lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com]

Just now??

[ex-muzer409.livejournal.com]

Very lovely. Poor piggie.

[lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com]

These two always sit together on the pig shelf. It's been going on forever.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Poor little piggie. :( Would the piggie like an expotition? Say, trout fishing in America?

[lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com]

Looks like it, eh?

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Pig looks sad. :(

[lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com]

It is the most downcast pig I own.

[purple7luv.livejournal.com]

yes.

[lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com]

yes indeedy!