Poem of the Day
Yellow Striped Pajamas
By Shamsher Bahadur Singh
walking silently on his paws, he emerges from the semidarkness and disappears into it.
walking silently on his paws, he emerges from the semidarkness and disappears into it.
Snowfall, thicker and thicker,
dovecolored, like yesterday,
snowfall, as if you had been asleep just now.
I told you
When you buy monkeys
You have to take the ones that are very lively and who almost scare you
Three prisoners get a hold of guns
They kill their jailer and grab the prison keys
They come running out of their cells and kill four guards in the courtyard
You said if you write me
Don’t type everything
Add a line in your own hand
Books
There are books that talk about the Panama Canal
I don’t know what the card catalogs say
And I don’t pay any attention to the financial pages
Christ
Here it’s been more than a year since I thought of You
Noon
Midnight
Shit is said in all the corners of the universe
There are books filled with nothing but descriptions of sunsets
Down in the valley you see that telegraph line whose rectilinear path cuts through the forest on the mountain across the way
All the poles are made of iron
The guillotine is the masterpiece of plastic art