storybooks and treasure maps are true
many thanks to strange horizons for publishing stephen's poem:
Storybooks and Treasure Maps
By Steve Eng
3 April 2006
[Editor's Note: Many thanks to Anne Eng for giving us permission to reprint Steve's work for a limited time in conjunction with Greg Beatty's "Reading the Rhysling."]
The kings and their crusaders are forgotten,
No one reads about them any more,
The flowers that the princess held are rotten,
Crushed beneath her slipper on the floor.
The chivalry of knights-in-armour's ended,
Fading like a fable into time,
The castle and the walls are undefended,
Empty like an ancient nursery rhyme.
But you and I must fight, and not surrender
All the dreams of yesterday we knew;
The grown-ups better listen and remember
Storybooks and treasure maps are true.
The demons and the dragons are all sleeping,
The giant's resting quiet in his bed,
The witches and the wizards now are keeping
Company with dreams that all are dead.
You and I must stand against tomorrow,
Fighting off the fear of growing old,
Dreams aren't something you can steal or borrow,
You don't beg them back once they've been sold.
But you and I must fight, and not surrender
All the dreams of yesterday we knew;
The grown-ups better listen and remember
Storybooks and treasure maps are true.
dad had the bob dylan bootleg series on cassette tape, which about got me through 1995.
"your heart feels sick like fish when they 're frying."
steve liked gustave dore, aubrey beardsley and art nouveau generally
much of his extremely rare book collection was purchased in Soho in the 1950's. these were the ones he kept behind glass.
my brother has told me he kept files on MKUltra.
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