Apo. ([info]writtenbyhand) wrote in [info]greatpoets,
@ 2006-01-03 15:28:00
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We Are Hard on Each Other by Margaret Atwood
i
We are hard on each other
and call it honesty,
choosing our jagged truths
with care and aiming them across
the neutral table.

The things we say are
true; it is our crooked
aims, our choices
turn them criminal.

ii
Of course your lies
are more amusing:
you make them new each time.

Your truths, painful and boring
repeat themselves over & over
perhaps because you own
so few of them

iii
A truth should exist,
it should not be used
like this. If I love you

is that a fact or a weapon?


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(don't you just love the last part? Sigh.)


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[info]glass_doll
2006-01-03 09:49 am UTC (link)
that last sentence was my journal subject for over a year and my MYSPACE headline (hell, it still could be :p)

I love Atwood

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[info]writtenbyhand
2006-01-04 01:28 pm UTC (link)
The woman is a genius.

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[info]vermillion_sky
2006-01-03 11:41 pm UTC (link)
this is great! i've read quite a few atwood poems, but this one is new to me. thanks for posting!

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[info]nyychick23513
2006-01-04 12:02 am UTC (link)
that last part is perfection. i absolutely adore it.

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[info]writtenbyhand
2006-01-04 01:29 pm UTC (link)
Just fragments of her poems make me go weak.
Imagine what a whole Atwood poem does to me.

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