Monday, February 13, 2012

Moral


(Quilt from Gee’s Bend, Alabama, by Annie
Mae Young)

This poem seems to allude to the printer’s devils, the errand boys at a printer’s shop, so-called because the boys “do commonly and so black and bedaub themselves [with ink] that the workmen do jocosely call them devils,” according to Joseph Moxon's Mechanick exercises; or The doctrine of handy-works applied to the art of printing, published in London in 1683.

MORAL

Read, as the dreamer reads,
Only between the lines.

Everything else is indubitably
A misprint, a devilish misprint.

~ Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961), American poet
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1 comment:

  1. Matt DFebruary 13, 2012 at 8:28 PM

    It's true,
    the writers sets up guideposts,
    but they can't give us the vision,
    we have to see that ourselves,
    and it's not always easy.

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