Posted by malthus on August 25, 2004, at 21:24:02
In reply to poem ... Bob to Register Three, posted by Atticus on August 25, 2004, at 19:42:16
You may find this strange Atticus, but when I read the following lines...
"The colony animal
Stretching behind
My mother
And I..."...then later you write:
"I can’t contain
My grin,
And my mother
Asks what’s so funny.
"Nothing," I answer,
"Just daydreaming,"
I was certain this was a memory of when you were a small boy. I'm not really sure why but I pictured you (though I've not idea what you look like or looked like as a child) holding your mother's hand as small children often do when surrounded by strangers in stores. And the line of people is certainly portrayed in quite a scary light!But then I came to this part...
"Before adding,
"The meds must
Be working,"
And she nods,
Reassured..."And I then realized you wrote this from a memory of when you were a grown man. I'm not sure if this was intentional but I perceive it that way. As if in the first part you had no cares in the world as most children do not, but in the second part you are no longer a protected child, you've born the brunt of growing up which
leaves you in a state where you've reckoned with the heartsickening jolts that life so often dishes out. And then you reassure your mother, turning the tables from mother reassuring son to son reassuring mother.Please let me know what you think of my ~babbological~ (read psychological) analysis of "Bob to Register Three"
{:) <Bob wearing a bad toupee>
malthus
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