2007 Artie's Gone
By Endre Farkas
Feb 14, 2007, 23:46
Obituary
"Artie Gold, one of Canada’s finest poets died on St. Valentine’s day, 2007. Gold, an honoured disassociate member of the Vehicule poets died peacefully after a long battle with emphysema and with most of the world. From those of us who loved you and your “small & mean” ways and you and your “grand and tender” gestures, and most all, you and your poems--goodbye
. . .I delight in the sun. it is monumental
in the sky with certainty rising, setting
looking to the greater cycle, there is colour,
a yellow angel pedals about the world. (ag)
If you wish to sign a guestbook for Artie, go to http://www.legacy.com/Link.asp?I=LS000086493148X
I have no astrologer -
and don't believe in falling in love
on any particular August day you could name
I have knapsacks full of knick-knacks
that spread beneath a tree
would suffocate a hermit
and a perpetual cough
that when I've had enough
I'll die from.
I came to this city
naked and from a small town
and have rearranged some of its objects
I will hitch-hike out of here one day
with my hair in my eyes and a good breeze blowing and cause a little confusion I'm sure --
though no more than a hair
discovered in a gravy.
artie gold
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