Eating Poetry* (III)
Shoot it Jimmy
Our orchestra
is the cat’s nuts –
Banjo jazz
with a nickelplated
amplifier to
soothe
the savage beast –
Get the rhythm
That sheet stuff
‘s a lot of cheese
Man
gimme the key
and lemme loose –
I make ‘em crazy
with my harmonies –
Shoot it Jimmy
Nobody
Nobody else
but me –
They can’t copy it.
William Carlos Williams: from Spring and All, 1923
*Ink runs from the corners of my mouth
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
~Mark Strand, “Eating Poetry,” Reasons for Moving, 1968
Quietzapple, on October 17th, 2009 at 9:41 am Said:
slurp