Saturday, December 6, 2008

Vanishing Point



Seems a lot of people are vanishing in the publishing world, lately. So here's a poem by Hugh Mearns (1875-1965) to cheer things up a bit.

Antigonish

As I was going up the stair

I met a man who wasn't there!

He wasn't there again to-day!

I wish, I wish, he'd stay away!

4 comments:

Julie said...

I posted another possibility over at The Drift Record , Douglas, because the title of the song and the name of the group seemed appropriate - but then the lyrics worked, too.

Douglas Florian said...

Poetikat, you're on the right track! The poem Antigonish was inspired by reports of a haunted house in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada, and was originally part of a play. Mearns himself was not Canadian.

melanie hope greenberg said...

One of my wonderful art directors is vanishing.
That is sad. I hope she reappears very soon.

Douglas Florian said...

my son is a magician. I'll see what he can do.