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25۝ National Poetry Month ۝25
۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝ UnderwearBy Lawrence Ferlinghetti~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~I didn’t get much sleep last night thinking about underwear Have you ever stopped to consider underwear in the abstract When you really dig into it some shocking problems are raised Underwear is something we all have to deal with Everyone wearssome kind of underwear ...
Posted to Poems by Galatea on April 25, 2008
12۝ National Poetry Month ۝12
۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝Constantly Risking AbsurdityBy Lawrence Ferlinghetti~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Constantly risking absurdityand deathwhenever he performsabove the headsof his audiencethe poet like an acrobatclimbs on rimeto a high wire of his own makingand balancing on eyebeamsabove a sea of facespaces his wayto the other side of the ...
Posted to Poems by Galatea on April 12, 2008
▲ Baseball Canto • Lawrence Ferlinghetti ▼
Baseball CantoBy Lawrence Ferlinghetti ▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲▼▲Watching baseball, sitting in the sun, eating popcorn, reading Ezra Pound,and wishing that Juan Marichal would hit a hole right through the Anglo-Saxon tradition in the first Cantoand demolish the barbarian invaders.When the San Francisco Giants take the field and everybody stands up for the ...
Posted to Poems by Galatea on July 9, 2007