I am packing to go to the airport
but somehow I am never packed.
I keep remembering more things
I keep forgetting.
Secretly the clock is bolting
forward ten minutes at a click
instead of one. Each time
I look away, it jumps.
Now I remember I have to find
the cats. I have four cats
even when I am asleep.
One is on the bed and I slip
her into the suitcase.
One is under the sofa. I
drag him out. But the tabby
in the suitcase has vanished.
Now my tickets have run away.
Maybe the cat has my tickets.
I can only find one cat.
My purse has gone into hiding.
Now it is time to get packed.
I take the suitcase down.
There is a cat in it but no clothes.
My tickets are floating in the bath
tub full of water. I dry them.
One cat is in my purse
but my wallet has dissolved.
The tickets are still dripping.
I look at the clock as it leaps
forward and see I have missed
my plane. My bed is gone now.
There is one cat the size of a sofa.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Давайте я спою вам в подражанье радиолам
- Dying
- Hunting Song by William Somervile
- Still Life by Reena Ribalow
- Михаил Лермонтов – Хоть давно изменила мне радость
- The Gardener XXI: Why Did He Choose by Rabindranath Tagore
- Howard Stern’s Wine
- Ольга Берггольц – Таков мой подарок тебе за измену
- Call To Account! by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- O fortunatus nimium, etc., a translation out of Virgil by Abraham Cowley
- Sonnet LXIV: When I Have Seen by Time’s Fell Hand Defac’d by William Shakespeare
- Accidents by Russell Edson
- The Paper Windmill poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Soldier’s Reprieve by William Topaz McGonagall
- Exit by Rita Dove
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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).
