Callas Poems by Patrick Donnelly (poetry ’03)
Two poems by Patrick Donnelly (poetry ’03), published by Plume.
Callas and the First Noble Truth
You critics threw her ashes into the sea
Complaining “She had three discrete voices.”
But how good did you think you deserved things to be?
All life is unsatisfactory,
Buddhism teaches.
You critics threw her ashes into the sea
Just as other critics shot good Jack Kennedy
And left him in pieces.
But how good did you think you deserved things to be?
