Sunday, June 29, 2014

Sunday Poetry: Self Pity

"Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes." -Joseph Roux


Self Pity, by D.H. Lawrence

I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.



Best recited by the Master Chief (aka Viggo Mortenson) in G.I. Jane:





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