Darkly amused

[redbird]

[Background: there's a long-running campaign of posting poetry, ancient through contemporary, on the subways. I think it started on the London Underground.]

On the train home today, I was out of book, so I glanced up, and saw some very familiar poetry. Eight lines of Yeats: from "Turning and turning in the widening gyre" through "and the worst are full of passionate intensity."

I don't know if whoever chooses poems decided the Republican convention delegates could use that poem--or that the rest of us who are going to have to put up with the damned thing would be comforted, cheered, or otherwise aided by it--or if the timing is sheer coincidence, but it seems fitting somehow.

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[wouldyoueva.livejournal.com]

The mass transit system in Philly (SEPTA) had a campaign in the early 70s to have poems, short-short stories and the like scattered in among the ads. However, the one I remember the best were step by step instructions for making grilled cheese sandwiches on your ironing board with your iron and aluminum foil. I never had the nerve to try it but it seemed useful enough to remember.

I will be staying in a hotel room with ironing boards next week. Maybe I'll do it for my picky eater as a snack.