{"id":2969,"date":"2014-09-19T11:02:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T11:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2015-04-20T22:20:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T22:20:44","slug":"mona-lisa-and-the-marlboro-man-poem-by-r-w-haynes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/mona-lisa-and-the-marlboro-man-poem-by-r-w-haynes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mona Lisa and the Marlboro Man. Poem by R.W. Haynes ."},"content":{"rendered":"

 
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\nNot knowing if wisdom would impulsively fly
\nOr if it dragged its feet when impulse flared,
\nShe had to make the call and suddenly try
\nTo do what an immortal would have dared,
\nAn Aphrodite, ascending in a flying cart
\nDrawn by fifty gurgling pigeons at a speed
\nWhich matched the speed of her own matchless heart
\nAnd the heartbreaking glory of her need.
\nLater, back in Laredo, she would say
\nShe didn\u2019t know why she\u2019d taken off that way,
\nSmiling with satisfaction, recalling when
\nHer best moments flew by delightfully then.
\n 
\n 
\nHe didn\u2019t want anyone saying, \u201cOh.
\nThis is how I feel,\u201d but people do
\nSay that, and he said it, sometimes, too,
\nIn unguarded moments, and he would show
\nHow he felt, displaying great disdain
\nAs he lit his pipe, blew blue smoke forth
\nDelivering himself from aesthetic pain
\nIncurred by foolish ideas from the North,
\nAnd, nodding slightly to appreciate
\nA tolerable turn of phrase which he
\nThought suggested some brain activity,
\nHe let his tobacco counter-obfuscate
\nSuspicious overflows of raw emotion
\nEroding the bedrock beneath her devotion.
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\nR. W. Haynes has taught literature at Texas A&M International University since 1992. His recent interests include the early British sonnet, and he is completing a second book on the Texas playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote (1916-2009). In his poetry, Haynes seeks to celebrate life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness without sounding any more dissonant notes than he has to. In fiction, he works toward grasping that part of the past which made its mark on his generation. He enjoys teaching drama, especially the Greeks, Ibsen, and Shakespeare, and he devoutly hopes for a stunning literary Renaissance in South Texas.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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