Comments on: “You Never Know When You’re Gonna Live…” by Nathaniel Whittemore http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2008/08/you-never-know-when-youre-gonna-live-by-nathaniel-whittemore/ Poetry for Everyone. Tue, 22 May 2012 20:06:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Bill http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2008/08/you-never-know-when-youre-gonna-live-by-nathaniel-whittemore/#comment-858 Bill Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:49:54 +0000 http://www.rattle.com/blog/?p=56#comment-858 The narration of this is like a shadow, so easily it is lost sight of, but remains so attached to the work. The sliver of bushido tingling at the beginning sends this so unknowingly toward popular culture, the film Ghost Dog and the smattering of stories regarding teachers who have for relatively innocuous reasons been fired criss-crossed in the news media these last few years. Rather enjoyed this. The narration of this is like a shadow, so easily it is lost sight of, but remains so attached to the work. The sliver of bushido tingling at the beginning sends this so unknowingly toward popular culture, the film Ghost Dog and the smattering of stories regarding teachers who have for relatively innocuous reasons been fired criss-crossed in the news media these last few years.

Rather enjoyed this.

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