Thirsting
Alicia Ostriker * Track #5 On Poem-A-Day (2018)
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Album Poem-A-Day (2018)
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QuarantineFranny Choi
- #2
Single Lines Looking Forward. or One Monostich Past 45Francine J. Harris
- #3Legacy
Reginald Dwayne Betts
- #4
Say it with your whole black mouthDanez Smith
- #5Thirsting
Alicia Ostriker
- #6
Speak Now, Or Forever. Hold Your Peace.Patricia Smith
- #7It Was Summer Now and the Colored People Came Out Into the Sunshine
Morgan Parker
Thirsting by Alicia Ostriker
Performed by
Alicia OstrikerThirsting Annotated
It's not that the old are wise
But that we thirst for the wisdom
we had at twenty
when we understood everything
when our brains bubbled
with tingling insights
percolating up from
our brilliant genitals
when our music rang like a global siege
shooting down all the lies in the world
oh then we knew the truth
then we sparkled like mica in granite
and now we stand on the shore
of an ocean that rises and rises
but is too salt to drink
Thirsting Q&A
Who wrote Thirsting's ?
Thirsting was written by Alicia Ostriker.