Thursday, July 5, 2012

Dagny (the 2nd most adorable literary character)

Dagney Taggart and the Comet


If not the dearest it's the one thing she'd brayed the most for,
    to be worker and queen, and more than that,
    cute in a chartreuse skirt:

Dagny, you and an ore mine and a truncheon's length of will--
    a sweet girl, a hard girl--with hair (as I'd imagined)
    slanting wryly from right to left

    aching to be kissed

I know happy or in chains she'd flowered from the stings, and the
    face, wrist & legs a while longer would gladly turn
    swelling to any faithless Hank,

    and all for that damn line

As near to a crown and a frown as it gets, but she's a lot more
    Blue-green bracelet on, Miss Dagny's got lot smarter
    from sex (every rail loosens & dies

    without it) who leans over her desk,

brow oped wide, to watch every fire 'long the Oregon coast

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