Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 29, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to do a complaint now. Which is to say Subject(s): Body, Human; Men | ||||||||
I want to do a complaint now. Which is to say simply that a hypertrophied prostate, whatever women and other such novices may choose to believe, is quite precisely not my idea of a baba au rhum at the Chez Paul or a Sunday outing with the laureate or a grandiluminarious sunset display over the park, etc. Also it is somewhat not like strawberry shortcake. On the contrary it is that insidious, invidious last drip which always waits, the inner adversary, till I'm upzipped, helpless, and heading out, to slip down my thigh like a seed of dying ice, leaving a streak on my pants, which is not nice. Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LIE DOWN WITH A MAN by TONY HOAGLAND WHY ARE YOUNG MEN SO UGLY by TONY HOAGLAND SONG OF MEN by EDGAR LEE MASTERS FIRST LESSON by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY I'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH A REAL HARD TIME BEFORE' by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION' by HAYDEN CARRUTH A POST-IMPRESSIONIST SUSURRATION FOR THE FIRST OF NOVEMBER by HAYDEN CARRUTH |
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