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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OVANUNA BELIEVED, by ANDRE SALMON Poet's Biography
First Line: Ovanuna believed that in america all
Last Line: Like a weakfish that shatters the frying-pan.
Subject(s): Hearts
First Line: Ovanuna believed that in america all
Last Line: Like a weakfish that shatters the frying-pan.
Subject(s): Hearts
Ovanuna believed that in America all
The birds that fly are mechanical.
The fault is that lover's who, wanting her to know
How to spell, took her nightly to the movie show.
So follow me instead,
Dream in my castle bed.
With the differential calculus I'll demonstrate to you
That the skyscrapers there all scrape so true
Really scrape with such sly employ
That the heavens burst into rippling joy
And once in every forty years
So it appears
They split the earth American—
So Frisco crashed
And on the wireless the echoes flashed—
Like a weakfish that shatters the frying-pan.
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