a thought in a basement flat, tripoli, greece 1989
by lippynelson (Member) - published: October 30, 2008
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the fruition of the grave
is guilt

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The following comments are for "a thought in a basement flat, tripoli, greece 1989"
by lippynelson

guilt and graves
found myself inspecting this poem from all angles, holding it up to the light like a bank note and checking for a water-mark... and, after all that, I find I still haven't got it figured out...

I read guilt both as subjective (for example of survivors) and objective (the living as being literally responsible)… then I thought maybe the guilt doesn’t belong to the living at all… and so I keep turning the poem over in my hands, a perplexing and intriguing set of words…

( Posted by: AuldMiseryGuts [Member] On: October 30, 2008 )

guilt
AuldMiseryGuts, thank you for these very intersting remarks - and sorry it has taken so long to respond. I think you are right - I would not dissent from any of the suggested readings. It wrote itself in a hot summer in 1989 in a small basement flat in Tripoli, Greece, where i was marooned with a teaching job. I would only add that mortality (the grave) itself might be a cause of guilt.

( Posted by: lippynelson [Member] On: January 25, 2009 )

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