Saturday, July 02, 2011

Poems From 10 Years Back - I

In the process of backing up various online email accounts to disk, several old emails/forwards with poetry content have been discovered, and are now presented without comment.


Prandial Plaint
        - Vikram Seth

My love, I love your breasts. I love your nose.
I love your accent and I love your toes.
I am your slave. One word and I obey.
But please don't slurp your coffee in that way.

(from 'All You Who Sleep Tonight')


Seth has featured in these pages before, and the excellent but sadly inactive Wondering Minstrels have a whole bunch of his stuff.

9 comments:

8&20 said...

Would love to read more from the Minstrels... I am still sad that they no longer operate :(.

BoFi said...

'Sadly' of course being the key word...
Why not you try poking it back to life?

Thomas said...

Believe me, I too am sad about it...

Space Bar said...

Have I said before I think Seth is only occasionally a good poet? So much doggerel...

Phantasmagoria said...

Hah. This was the first book of poetry I bought with my own money. Gosh it was so expensive. All of Rs. 100! Just sharing. Not that its important.

Anonymous said...

Hahaha ... Very tolerant of him I must say ...mightier ppl have been undone with much less :p (ok maybe not @ less) - s

Anonymous said...

Yorumunuz kaydedildi blog sahibnin onayindan sonra gosterilecek , I am informed. Ok @ dictatorial blog sahib.

Ludwig said...

[8 & 20] I hear you.

[BoFi] One of the pokees has posted here, saying he is also sad about it. Not sure what more can be done!

[Thos./Pokee] Everything must pass?

[SB] Ah, OK. Sauce for goose != ditto for gander?

[Ph] Good Lord. You're still around? Thanks for sharing the unimportant.

[S] Heh. In light of recent events? :P

Anonymous said...

Not really around. But every once in a while I drop by a blog a two that I used to frequent.

Howsu you?

Ph