Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
The librarian does not believe what she sees.
Her eyes are sad
and she walks with her hands in her dress.
The poems are gone.
The light is dim.
The dogs are on the basement stairs and coming up.
Their eyeballs roll,
their blond legs burn like brush.
The poor librarian begins to stamp her feet and weep.
She does not understand.
When I get on my knees and lick her hand,
she screams.
I am a new man.
I snarl at her and bark.
I romp with joy in the bookish dark.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Nevertheless by Marianne Moore
- The Gardener XXII: When She Passed by Me by Rabindranath Tagore
- Алексей Плещеев – Лучше гибель без возврата
- Михаил Лермонтов – Звуки и взор
- Manifestations by Tom Shea
- Soil by Roger McGough
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Mr. W. Cruikshank:
- Robert Burns: Versified Reply To An Invitation:
- Portrait From The Infantry
- A Performance At Hog Theater by Russell Edson
- Morning Song in the Jungle by Rudyard Kipling
- Flying Wishes by Osman cisse Hanif
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- Never Again by Stevie Smith
- An Hymn To The Evening by Phillis Wheatley
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
