Thomas Lynch
Thomas Lynch
corpse correct
It is not enough to be a corpse any more. Now, you have to be a politically correct corpse.
bare believers compelling ethics fact matter sounds strikes true
It strikes me that after all the archbishops and politicos and true believers have their say on the ethics of the matter of euthanasia, bare fact sounds very compelling and very challenging.
instinct
The instinct to preplan has been around for a long time.
silence tears done
Whatever’s there to feel, feel it – the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache of your own mortality. Get with someone you can trust with tears, with anger, and wonderment and utter silence. Get that part done – the sooner the better. The only way around these things is through them.
grief pay want
Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.
funeral needs good-fun
A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.
grief attachment pay
Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments...
utterance way hobbies
But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
effort language situation
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
life
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
funerals interested mourning people
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
eventually generally jump lazy means oriented task
I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.
itself pair shape takes
Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.