Auden nIcarus

So we can’t fly anymore: we just need to
be like those old men in Breughel’s Icarus
what were they thinking anyways, sort of bored – oh
they had better morepractical things on
their minds: Auden seemed to think those old men had the right
idea he always liked that kind of seasoned
disenchantment.

And ah hope that we can carry on some kindof
peace while our children are trying to blow
bubbles in the turning ocean currents.

~ by blackhats on November 10, 2009.