Drawing by Susan C. Price
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By Eric Meub
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By Eric Meub
[Originally published on Aug. 9, 2014]
Why bother getting out of bed? It’s not
As if we’re here in season: covered pool
And lounge chairs stacked like firewood as a rule.
I say resort, you think forsaken spot.
I’d like a languid spell before it’s lost
In autumn turbulence: more summer burns
And children, less forlornly piping terns,
With nets across the tennis courts, not frost.
But you prefer to catch things past their prime.
You peek around the backside of the stage,
The undersides of floats; you like to gauge
If spectacle survives its closing time.
Like now, in absentmindedness or gall,
You’re just not looking at me properly at all.
| Copyright © 2014, 2015, 2021 by Susan C. Price & Eric Meub Eric Meub, architect, lives and practices in Pasadena, the adopted brother of the artist, Susan C. Price. They respect, in their different ways, the line. |
“Why bother getting out of bed?” It has been a morning like that here too. But after commenting on recent posts on Morisco, I’m beginning to see a reason for my having gotten out: to nourish myself and fortify my day. Thank you, Eric, Michael, Maik, Ed, Bob. Paul, André, Billy Charles, James, James, Geoffrey….
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