Boats Against The Current

Tom Russell: Guadalupe ...3/31/13





I give you
the mausoleum of
all hope and desire.
I give it to you
not that you may
remember time,
but that you
might forget it
now and then
for a moment
and not spend
all of your breath
trying to conquer it.
Because no battle
is ever won he said.
They are not even fought.
The field only
reveals to man
his own folly and despair,
and victory is an illusion
of philosophers and fools.
--William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury