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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: IPPOLIT KONOVALOFF, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poet's Biography
First Line: I was a gun-smith in odessa
Last Line: To mould the metal over.
Subject(s): Guns
First Line: I was a gun-smith in odessa
Last Line: To mould the metal over.
Subject(s): Guns
I WAS a gun-smith in Odessa.
One night the police broke in the room
Where a group of us were reading Spencer.
And seized our books and arrested us.
But I escaped and came to New York
And thence to Chicago, and then to Spoon River,
Where I could study my Kant in peace
And eke out a living repairing guns!
Look at my moulds! My architectonics!
One for a barrel, one for a hammer,
And others for other parts of a gun!
Well, now suppose no gun-smith living
Had anything else but duplicate moulds
Of these I show you -- well, all guns
Would be just alike, with a hammer to hit
The cap and a barrel to carry the shot,
All acting alike for themselves, and all
Acting against each other alike.
And there would be your world of guns!
Which nothing could ever free from itself
Except a Moulder with different moulds
To mould the metal over.
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