Caught Again At Some Impossible Pass

[cirerita]

Submitted to Quixote in 1959, the poem was not rejected... nor published, at least that I know of. The guest editor sat on it for a while and I think the mag folded before he could use it.

 

[Father Luke]

I like the poem.

 

[Bukfan]

Not rejected nor published! Interesting. Nice find, cirerita! Thanks...

 

[MULLINAX]

Pass? Maybe impass? Or something.

 

[cirerita]

Do not underestimate B. ;)

 

[Erik]

Good find C.
Strange power in these few lines.

On "pass": reminds me of cowboy-movie slang:
"Lets cut him off at the pass."

Classic Buk-use of words if you ask me...
unpoetically poetic :p

 

[Snowball Fight]

Awesome...

 

[Gerard K H Love]

He could have written a whole story from that poem. I guess he did pretty much sum up the whole story there as it is. I know I like it, for whatever that's worth.
Thank you again, cirerita, the great schloar.

 

[mjp]

He could have written a whole story from that poem.

He did. In all the stories about Barbara Frye and her Texas family.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

OK I give up. How does this poem outline the whole Barbara Frye and Texas story? I see a story about a drifter getting out of town so the locals don't mess him up or at least frame him. I may be wrong- of course it's me.:confused:

 

[Father Luke]

I see a story about a drifter getting out of town so the locals don't mess him up or at least frame him.

Picture Henry Charles Bukowski at a hay ride, then let your imagination do the rest.

Should that help, I mean.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

Yeah, he'd light a cigarette and accidently start the wagon on fire. Then he'd take the 8:15 to Memphis. Of course after he had a fight with the cow pokes who take hay rides seriously. I still see a whole other story out on the highway at a roadhouse in a pass. Yes Patrick Swayze will throw him out into the parking lot. And they can't knock him out.

 

[Father Luke]

Yeah, he'd light a cigarette and accidently start the wagon on fire.

heh