Speaking of AUs - poetry?

[farad]

So here in the US, it's National Vin Month!  Okay, no, not really, it's National Poetry Month - and in honor of that, and to cross these ideas of alternate universes and poetry, I thought I'd periodically drop in some interesting cowboy poetry - yes yes, indeed, there is actually a form of American poetry called "Cowboy Poetry" (who knew??).

So today, in hopes of inspiring us all to write alternate universes (perhaps ones in which Vin writes good poetry and doesn't recite it to Mary), I give you a classic cowboy poem.

Written by Robert Service probably a decade or so after our boys hook up, here's "Men That Don't Fit In", which rather reminds me of our boys:

"The Men That Don't Fit In"
          by Robert Service

There's a race of men that don't fit in,
 A race that can't stay still;
 So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
 And they roam the world at will.
 They range the field and they rove the flood,
 And they climb the mountain's crest;
 Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
 And they don't know how to rest.

If they just went straight they might go far;
 They are strong and brave and true;
 But they're always tired of the things that are,
 And they want the strange and new.
 They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
 What a deep mark I would make!"
 So they chop and change, and each fresh move
 Is only a fresh mistake.

And each forgets, as he strips and runs
 With a brilliant, fitful pace,
 It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
 Who win in the lifelong race.
 And each forgets that his youth has fled,
 Forgets that his prime is past,
 Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
 In the glare of the truth at last.

So - words?  ideas?  Something fun and happy???


 

Comments

[solosundance]

Oh that's a melancholy little poem, as are many cowboy poems I'm sure. And your AU with Vin's poetry... would that be the one in which Ezra writes it out in pretty script and Chris recites, probably while they're all in bed together? *g*