Fun Size Bytes

  • Who I Follow
  • "Favorite Part" posts (starting at oldest)
  • Favorite Part (starting with most recent)
  • Contact Me
  • ask me anything
  • rss
  • archive
  • “I heard from people after the shootings. People
    I knew well or barely or not at all. Largely
    the same message: how horrible it was, how little
    there was to say about how horrible it was.
    People wrote, called, mostly e-mailed
    because they know I teach at Virginia Tech,
    to say, there’s nothing to say. Eventually
    I answered these messages: there’s nothing
    to say back except of course there’s nothing
    to say, thank you for your willingness
    to say it. Because this was about nothing.
    A boy who felt that he was nothing,
    who erased and entered that erasure, and guns
    that are good for nothing, and talk of guns
    that is good for nothing, and spring
    that is good for flowers, and Jesus for some,
    and scotch for others, and “and” for me
    in this poem, “and” that is good
    for sewing the minutes together, which otherwise
    go about going away, bereft of us and us
    of them. Like a scarf left on a train and nothing
    like a scarf left on a train. As if the train,
    empty of everything but a scarf, still opens
    its doors at every stop, because this
    is what a train does, this is what a man does
    with his hand on a lever, because otherwise,
    why the lever, why the hand, and then it was over,
    and then it had just begun.”
    — In the Loop by Bob Hicok : Poetry Magazine
    Source: poetryfoundation.org
    • December 15, 2012 (1:14 am)
    • 27 notes
    • #poetry
    • #guns
    • #newtown
    • #Bob Hicok
    Previous Post Home Next Post
    1. asianswithbarbarianappetites reblogged this from cleversimon and added:
      This is fantastic.
    2. tj likes this
    3. sweetchrysanthemum likes this
    4. sniffyjenkins likes this
    5. everythinginthesky likes this
    6. cleversimon reblogged this from tj and added:
      I heard from people after the shootings. People I knew well or barely or not at all. Largely the same message: how...
    7. jxpx777 likes this
    8. catty1 likes this
    9. apricotica likes this
    10. do-over likes this
    11. notactuallyme likes this
    12. lindstifa likes this
    13. tiffanyb likes this
    14. kalamazu likes this
    15. davesnothere likes this
    16. justalittletaste likes this
    17. kfedup likes this
    18. sistacrumpet likes this
    19. cleversimon said: I hadn’t seen this before. And I thought I couldn’t love Hicok more.
    20. sarkastickunt likes this
    21. katefeetie likes this
    22. littledarkone likes this
    23. tymethiefslongerthoughts likes this
    24. socialismandrum likes this
    25. knitterplease likes this
    26. summersumz likes this
    27. tj posted this
© 2008–2013 Fun Size Bytes