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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FUTILITY, by BERTON BRALEY Poet's Biography First Line: You like to rise at six each day? Last Line: I do not care, you do not care? Subject(s): Conversation | |||
You like to rise at six each day? You like your coffee black and strong? You can't eat veal at all, you say Because it hits your system wrong? And all the long, cold winter through You wear thin summer underwear? Well, though this stuff is doubtless true, I do not care; I do not care! I take a cold plunge when I rise, My breakfast's always very light, I find that it is most unwise For me to eat a lunch at night; I wear steel arches in my shoes, I think a tonic helps my hair— But though I state this all as news, You do not care, you do not care! Good Lord, the precious time we waste Describing in minute detail Our clothes, our food, our whims, our taste, Until our talk grows dull and stale! You speak of things that bore me stiff And then I bore you to get square— What use is conversation if I do not care, you do not care? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TODAY'S NOT OPPOSITE DAY by CHARLES BERNSTEIN WORDS THE DREAMER SPOKE TO MY FATHER IN MAINE by ROBERT BLY A CONVERSATION WITH MONICA WILSON by AIME CESAIRE TWO WOMEN ON THE POTOMAC HIGHWAY by NORMAN DUBIE IT JUST SO HAPPENS by JAMES GALVIN DRIFTERS: BELLA COOLA TO WILLIAMS LAKE by KAREN SWENSON |
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