Poetry Essay
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4_poems_.docxKenneth Fearing “AD”
WANTED: Men Millions of men are WANTED AT ONCE in a big field; NEW, TREMENDOUS, THRILLING, GREAT. If you've been a figure in the chamber of horrors, If you've ever escaped from a psychiatric ward, If you thrill at the thought of throwing poison into wells, have heavenly visions of people, by the thousands, dying in flames-- YOU ARE THE VERY MAN WE WANT We mean business and our business is YOU WANTED: A race of brand-new men. Apply: Middle Europe; No skill needed; No ambition required; no brains wanted and no character allowed; TAKE A PERMANENT JOB IN THE COMING PROFESSION Wages: DEATH.
E.E. Cummings “next to of cource god america i”
next to of course god america i
love you land of the pilgrims' and so forth oh
say can you see by the dawn's early my
country 'tis of centuries come and go
and are no more what of it we should worry
in every language even deafanddumb
thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry
by jingo by gee by gosh by gum
why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-
iful than these heroic happy dead
who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
then shall the voice of liberty be mute?
He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water
James Merrill “ Casual Wear”
Your average tourist: Fifty. 2.3 Times married. Dressed, this year, in Ferdi Plinthbower Originals. Odds 1 to 910 Against her strolling past the Embassy
Today at noon. Your average terrorist: Twenty-five. Celibate. No use for trends, At least in clothing. Mark, though, where it ends. People have come forth made of colored mist
Unsmiling on one hundred million screens To tell of his prompt phone call to the station, “Claiming responsibility”—devastation Signed with a flourish, like the dead wife’s jeans.
Donald Justice “Order in the Streets”
