"Don't Look So Scared! You're Alive!" From: Poetry | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright Modern Poetry Association Oct 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

For Marilyn Krysl

Who speaks? Now that the Muses have traded their togas for faded rags; now that their spring has dried up; their once firm breasts old dugs sagging, their thoughts wandering into clouds of theory, inspiration's exhaust - who is it then wakes the writer in the night and speaks? Now that Clear Channel has bought up the air and fills it with babble and gas, and Truth lies choking in a shuttered room; now that the Angel with the flaming sword has put the Garden to the torch; among shards of bone, broken tablets, a mosaic of haphazard art, the hyenas gather, and the tanks roll ...

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