Thursday, May 22, 2008

Just finished hist essay,totally draining and so I picked out my Lit poems and read through it again.Want to share this particular poem with you guys and see how you guys will react to it.

MAG by Carl Sandburg

I wish to God I never saw you, Mag.
I wish you never quit your job and came along with me.
I wish we never bought a license and a white dress
For you to get married in the day we ran off to the minister
And told him we would love each other and take care of each other
Always and always, as long as the sun and the rain lasts anywhere.
Yes, I'm wishing now you lived somewhere away from here
And I was a bum on the bumpers a thousand miles away, dead broke.

I wish the kids had never come,
And the rent, and coal, and clothes to pay for,
And the grocery man calling for cash.
Every day, cash for beans and prunes.
I wish to God I never saw you, Mag!
I wish to God the kids had never come!

I bet you guys think that this is a negative poem right,in fact,I did too when I first saw it.Actually,it's a positive poem.The persona still loves Mag if you guys didn't realise,he is just frustrated about all that comes along with marriage - kids,commitments and it's no longer just about them two.

I kinda feel the same though,I mean,not in the sense of the marriage part.Just wish I didn't know you,wish to God I never saw you.Life's a mess and I can't focus at all.I am,at times,very disgusted with myself too.):

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