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
- The Irish Unionist’s farewell to Greta Hellastrom in 1922 poem – John Betjeman poems
- Drapple-thorned Aphrodite, by Sappho
- Владимир Маяковский – Нетрудно, ландышами дыша
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Солнце садится
- Геннадий Айги – Два эпилога
- Usurpation
- A Week by Thomas Hardy
- America, America by Saadi Youssef
- Владимир Британишский – Калмыцкое побережье Каспия
- life on the escalator by Raj Arumugam
- Fifth Grade Autobiography by Rita Dove
- Oblivion by Satish Verma
- The Force Of Prayer, Or, The Founding Of Bolton, A Tradition by William Wordsworth
- Elegy Written At Hotwells, Bristol by William Lisle Bowles
- In Memoriam F.O.S. by Sara Teasdale
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