文章基本信息

标题：Last Seen.
作者：Esteve, Jean
期刊名称：Confrontation
印刷版ISSN：0010-5716
出版年度：2008
期号：December
语种：English
出版社：Long Island University, C.W. Post College

摘要：

 Last Seen     I'm looking up and down for that joker-of-the-road,       has't seen?    Last seen drunk, he was by-productly        monosyllabic, glassy-eyed, who cares?    One sound at a time's enough for me    cooped up as I am on this acre       of head-and-heart and tomato-soup-can pain.    Loop-o, he goes anywhere he choose-o's,       has-t heard word of?    Were it not for that infernal promise of return       in a halo of happiness,    dragging presents wrapped in tissue, tied with bows,    you'd never find me curled around my toes, so pinioned    by safety- pin ideas, what to buy from grocery, what to name the       cat, I'd be away,    I'd be on the road away. Say that

Last Seen.

Esteve, Jean

Last Seen

   I'm looking up and down for that joker-of-the-road,
      has't seen?
   Last seen drunk, he was by-productly
       monosyllabic, glassy-eyed, who cares?
   One sound at a time's enough for me
   cooped up as I am on this acre
      of head-and-heart and tomato-soup-can pain.
   Loop-o, he goes anywhere he choose-o's,
      has-t heard word of?
   Were it not for that infernal promise of return
      in a halo of happiness,
   dragging presents wrapped in tissue, tied with bows,
   you'd never find me curled around my toes, so pinioned
   by safety- pin ideas, what to buy from grocery, what to name the
      cat, I'd be away,
   I'd be on the road away. Say that