Purgatory
by Maxine Kumin
And suppose the darlings get to Mantua,
suppose they cheat the crypt, what next? Begin
with him, unshaven. Though not, I grant you, a
displeasing cockerel, there’s egg yolk on his chin.
His seedy robe’s aflap, he’s got the rheum.
Poor dear, the cooking lard has smoked her eye.
Another Montague is in the womb
although the first babe’s bottom’s not yet dry.
She scrolls a weekly letter to her Nurse
who dares to send a smock through Balthasar,
and once a month, his father posts a purse.
News from Verona? Always news of war.
Such sour years it takes to right this wrong!
The fifth act runs unconscionably long.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Sonnet 125: Were’t aught to me I bore the canopy by William Shakespeare
- Юлия Друнина – Зима, зима нагрянет скоро
- Epigram Addressed to an Artist by Robert Burns
- Even Because by Ralph Angel
- On Colley Cibber poem – Alexander Pope
- In The Seven Woods by William Butler Yeats
- Storm and Sunlight by Siegfried Sassoon
- Fragment. Where’s The Poet? poem – John Keats poems
- Tis Time, I Think, By Wenlock Town poem – A. E. Housman
- The Simplon Pass by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: Stanzas On The Same Occasion [Prospect of Death]:
- Written in London. September, 1802 by William Wordsworth
- Lucky by Thomas Lux
- Spring in Town by William Cullen Bryant
- Алексей Толстой – Шумит на дворе непогода
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