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Tuesday 16 February 2010

"ROMMEL DRIVES ON DEEP INTO EGYPT"

I first read this poem in a bookshop in Melbourne in 1974..I bought the book..I wonder where it is now..

"ROMMEL DRIVES ON DEEP INTO EGYPT"
—San Francisco Chronicle headline
June 26, 1942

Rommel is dead.
His army has joined the quicksand legions
of history where the battle is always
a metal echo saluting a rusty shadow.
His tanks are gone.
How's your ass?
Richard Brautigan
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  1. P. M. Doolan19 February 2010 at 12:50 am

    I bought my copy around the late 70s and I sill have it. The poem you quoted is followed by a poem entitled "A 48-Year-Old Burglar from San Diego" - the page is blank!
    Alas, not only is Rommel dead, but so to is Brautigan - committed suicide in 1984 I think.

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  2. Unknown19 February 2010 at 9:33 am

    Haunted by the ghosts of books once possessed ...

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  3. kendo24 August 2010 at 11:43 pm

    yes indeed..

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