Part Of Speech

Portrait of Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky 1940–1996

...and when "the future" is uttered, swarms of mice rush out of the Russian language and gnaw a piece of ripened memory which is twice as hole-ridden as real cheese. After all these years it hardly matters who or what stands in the corner, hidden by heavy drapes, and your mind resounds not with a seraphic "doh", only their rustle. Life, that no one dares to appraise, like that gift horse's mouth, bares its teeth in a grin at each encounter. What gets left of a man amounts to a part. To his spoken part. To a part of speech.

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  1. nicoe Bosnia and Herzegovina

    You tried way to hard to make your poem deep. You made your poem wayyyyy to deep, it sound so UNEDUCATED! Swarms of mice came out of the russian language? How old are you like 121

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