April 2012
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A Poem-A-Day Celebration: Mark Strand's "The... →
celebratepoetry:
The below may not be a poem, but it is also not NOT a poem. It is typical of the work in Almost Invisible, a slim but significant book of playful creations from the pen of Mark Strand, whose whole career, in a way, has been an attempt to understand (or perhaps to refute!) “The Triumph of the…
A Poem-A-Day Celebration: Don Marquis and Archy's... →
celebratepoetry:
For those who don’t know Archy, he was the cockroach poet who used the typewriter of his “boss,” Don Marquis, a columnist for the New York Sun from 1916 into the 1930s, in order to type out his poems, which then became the fodder for Marquis’s highly popular Sun Dial column. Together with his…
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Different, then the others........
He’s very different then the others. He’s much smaller, that’s for sure! Much more independent, that too is for sure…None of the others were ever overweight..He is.. Not that much, by about 3 1/2 - 4 lbs. But, for his size, that’s enough…He’s good, in some ways, that the others were not.. but then in other way, important ways that the others were good in, he is not. Yet, he is loved! Oh, he is SO...
Different, then the others........
He’s very different then the others. He’s much smaller, that’s for sure! Much more independent, that too is for sure…None of the others were ever overweight..He is.. Not that much, by about 3 1/2 - 4 lbs. But, for his size, that’s enough…He’s good, in some ways, that the others were not.. but then in other way, important ways that the others were good...
