Drastic Men of Clay

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Drastic Men of Clay

Prose/Poetry & Epigrams

All rights reserved.Copyright 2011 by Rorry Nighttrain East

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Drastic Men of Clay

Prose/Poetry & Epigrams

By Rorry Nighttrain East

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Foreword


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Where Drastic Men of Clay are concerned,

let us remember that even in his or hertroubles, mankind was made to be a giant.Yet all of life is such a brief whim. Life is toomuch like Carl Sandburg's musings calledFog: "The fog comes on little cat feet. It sitslooking over harbor and city on silenthaunches and then moves on." Therefore,

as drastic men and women of clay, let ustake this muted moment to listen to theshouted whisper of life's beautiful heartbeat.

Rorry Nighttrain EastSilver City, New Mexico

April 3, 2011

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Acknowledgments

This paperback poetry is sheathed in anddedicated in loneliness. Let it be a sentinelunto all who have ever had to sit in someout-of-the-way cafe, only to taste the depthsof a heartache soup. For at one time oranother, we have all been drastic men orwomen of clay.

With honorable mention toMr. Frank LaBrash


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Other Books By RorryNighttrain East

Passenger of Meandering Dreams

The Night is a PantherIn the Gliding SuddenAUGUST MESSENGER: The Kinetic-MojoPoetry BookEventide CrowsTwo Ships Passing in the DesertThe Vacant City and Other Unusual TalesRunaway, Like the Dying MoonDrastic Men of Clay

**********Table of Contents

1. Platonic Zest2. A Poetic License made of Rain3. Sculptured Words4. A Pocketbook of Electric Seasons5. Next Renaissance, Now6. Sandalwood, Musk & EtherealConversation7. A Leaking Bucket of Souls8. The Orthodoxy of Nothingness

9. Drastic Men of ClayPostscriptBook SourcesAbout the Author


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ONE

Platonic Zest

**********Bookstore in the Sky

This golden age

of literature

has only nowbegun;

as balladeers elopewith encyclopedias

to the sun.

Whereuponmessengers of the gods

will dancethe electric blue

of sky;

with triumphantelliptical writings

away up thereon high.


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Thenfood for thoughtmight land upon

some solitarycold dwarf star,as other travelers

with hungry minds

re-read our tomeson Mars.

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In this golden age

of literaturethat has merelyjust begun;

as balladeers elopewith encyclopedias

to the sun.

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Catch of the Day

taunted by the rainand by the raucous soundsof splashing days,end over end


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along our lane

we sit at tables,stand in windows,lay around withoutelectricitywith our hornsin a twist.

our demons faced,in mirrors,we learn that menhave no friends,not even where roadside fieldand tangled sky ends,

but if most of life's troubleswere caught in a net,the deep would be shallowand the sea not wet

these lines we write

would be without hooks,and pessimism, the bait,

for only History books.

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Greatnessonly comes to those

who are willing


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to make a few more mistakes:

THAT'S THE JAZZ OF LIVING____________________

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