JOHN MCCRAE (caller): …that mark our place.
NED (counselor): Do you mean like a bookmark? Or our place on earth?
MCCRAE: And in the sky
NED: Glad to know you’re thinking about your place in Heaven, callerino.
MCCRAE: The larks, still bravely singing, fly.
NED: Those are brave birds, if the boy next door is out there with his slingshot.
Category: June Jordan
June Jordan calls the Poetry Crisis Line
Transcript:
COUNSELOR: Poetry Crisis Line, what is your emergency?
JUNE JORDAN: Poetry is a political act.
COUNSELOR: Why’s that?
JUNE JORDAN: Because it involves telling the truth.
COUNSELOR: Have you met any politicians?