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
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- Николай Языков – Послание к А. Н. Очкину (О, ты, с которым я, от юношеских лет)
- Юнна Мориц – Приход вдохновения
- Алексей Толстой – Пустой дом
- Going Back to School by Stephen Vincent Benet
- My Boy Jack by Rudyard Kipling
- Kumarakom (after the boat tragedy) by Shreekumar Varma
- Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath
- Николай Карамзин – К милости
- To A Young Lady. On Her Recovery From A Fever by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Аля Кудряшева – Октябрь был дождем, непонятным месяцем
- Muttering by Satish Verma
- Finding freedom from invisible bonds by Sunil Sharma
- Young Man’s Song by William Butler Yeats
- Pandering by Satish Verma
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