April is almost here and I start to salivate for all things poetry. To say that I love poetry would be an understatement and celebrating poetry for a month with others is better than Christmas for me. Here is a poem that I go back to every year at this time to wet my appetite.
Eating Poetry
Mark Strand
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
The librarian does not believe what she sees.
Her eyes are sad
and she walks with her hands in her dress.
The poems are gone.
The light is dim.
The dogs are on the basement stairs and coming up.
Their eyeballs roll,
their blond legs burn like brush.
The poor librarian begins to stamp her feet and weep.
She does not understand.
When I get on my knees and lick her hand,
she screams.
I am a new man,
I snarl at her and bark,
I romp with joy in the bookish dark.
Soooo wonderful!!!
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