Showing posts with label Larry Fine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Larry Fine. Show all posts

Friday, December 27, 2013

Give like Larry


Larry Fine


'Bravo'  and "Ah, look! I'd said, shortly after he'd been dead.
   Mischief-makers everywhere & not a single one

who could tune a bow and fill eyes (mine) to tears and laughs--
  well, nobody'd who'd said and done his job better or

sawn off  an ear and scattered his straw-hair hung in shreds,
   fighting back tears with difficulty as I'm sure they all did

when he'd been found blessed: not one could deny he'd been
  felled at last, pitched forward as if thrown by a

punch or slap, twisting and turning and hopping on one leg
  til he rested in a permanent chair & nearly reached

as far as the heart can, reaching mine. Give like a stooge, then
   many straggling bucks (like puppet-hair) & then die

                                                        Give til you die, like Larry