Saturday, March 13, 2010

Pea Essss

I forgot to add this poem to list four.

* Eating Poetry
by Mark Strand
Ink runs from the cor
ners 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.

2 comments:

Home of Pie said...

PS I love this. LOVE IT.

Home of Pie said...
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