"with icecream spoons for feet"
Teasdale, Patchen, Ferlinghetti, Brehm, Merwin
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Sara Teasdale:
Kenneth Patchen:
Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
John Brehm:
W.S. Merwin:
Weegee, “Afternoon at Coney Island, Brooklyn,” July 21, 1940:
Godspeed You Black Emperor, “Sleep: Murray Ostril ‘They Don’t Sleep Anymore on the Beach’,” rec. 2000:
Poetry is like bagpipes. Or accordions. At first I think; this is interesting. I’m drawn in. Then after a few minutes I want it to stop.
Merwin's poem is so sad...