Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Charles Bukowski

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From Best American Poetry 1994

Ogden Nash

A Caution to Everybody

Consider the auk;
Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and
could only walk.
Consider man, who may well become extinct
Because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly
before he thinked.


From 100 Plus American Poems

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

AR Ammons

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From Contemporary American Poetry - the 6th edition, edited by A. Poulin, Jr. (I couldn't find this edition on Amazon).