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POEM: Metaphysical Marv

Metaphysical Marv

do not be angry
I still pursue
the noblest man
is mainly water
and like that stream
by whose side
we lipped away
a lazy summer
my course is set
we both must follow
the lay of the land

POEM: Waugh

Waugh

Evelyn Waugh
wrote the following

to know and love
another person
is the beginning
of all wisdom

if this is true
my darling Nan
my English girl
you have made me
the wisest fool
in all the world

POEM: To A Young Poet

 

   love and loss

   are the two

   great themes

   one girl will do

 

 

 

 

101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

POEM: Hollywood

 

  

   Holocaust!

     the musical

   

POEM: Conversation

   

    the other night

over coffee

Laura and I

talked of poetry

I said   the women

who hurt us most

are most valuable

to any writer

sceptical Laura

smiled   and said

and what of those

who gave their hearts

I returned her smile

and threw the ace

they are the same

POEM: The Gentleman And The Jew

  

        for John Bayley

an English wit

(not much of one)

was quoted in

a feuilleton

 how odd

 of God

 to choose

 the Jews

I here reply

(with visage wry)

 my dear

 Lord Schnook

 we wrote

 the book

 

POEM: Why Our Lives Speed Up

each life

is a universe

in miniature   indeed

it starts with a bang

and moves forward

with ever-increasing speed

POEM: Why Our Lives Speed Up

 

each life

is a universe

in miniature   indeed

it starts with a bang

and moves forward

with ever-increasing speed

 

 

 

101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

POEM: Do Not Be Angry

do not be angry

I still pursue

the noblest man

is mainly water

and like that stream

by whose side

we lipped away

a lazy summer

my course is set

we both must follow

the lay of the land

 

101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

POEM: Porter

Katherine Anne

story writer

was also   it seems

an original thinker

alone of anti-semites

she found the Jews

to be   stupid

who could she mean

Montaigne  Spinoza

Proust  Kafka

Freud  Einstein

as my Jewish grandmother

would sometimes say

what’s not to like