Yeats/Koch
1.
Eagerly I await my Yeats book — that is,
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Which I've ordered on Amazon from
A Goodwill store in San Francisco.
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Which I've ordered on Amazon from
A Goodwill store in San Francisco.
2.
Koch said, 'I want you all to write
An imitation of a poet you like but
I forbid you to imitate W.B. Yeats
And I'll flunk anyone who does.'
Koch said, 'I want you all to write
An imitation of a poet you like but
I forbid you to imitate W.B. Yeats
And I'll flunk anyone who does.'
3.
After Yeats' proposal of marriage
Was turned down by Maud Gonne
He proposed to her daughter Iseult
And I believe he was quite serious.
After Yeats' proposal of marriage
Was turned down by Maud Gonne
He proposed to her daughter Iseult
And I believe he was quite serious.
4,
On cold windy days Yeats liked
To wrap himself in a rug and sit
To wrap himself in a rug and sit
On the beach in a deck chair
Until dinnertime rolled around.
5.
Beckett compared impotence to
Putting a pillow in a pillow case
While Yeats said it was like trying
To put oysters in a vending machine.
Putting a pillow in a pillow case
While Yeats said it was like trying
To put oysters in a vending machine.
6.
After Yeats was rejected by Iseult
He married Georgie Hyde-Lees
Who was half his age and whose
Automatic writing fascinated him.
7.
Koch admired Yeats' six-line poem
'A Deep-Sworn Vow' which made me
Wonder at the time and even now
I wonder but in a quite different way.
Koch admired Yeats' six-line poem
'A Deep-Sworn Vow' which made me
Wonder at the time and even now
I wonder but in a quite different way.
8.
Today a book arrived from Amazon
Which was not Yeats' Collected Poems
But I still have the Bible and Koch said,
'It's not called the good book for nothing.'
Today a book arrived from Amazon
Which was not Yeats' Collected Poems
But I still have the Bible and Koch said,
'It's not called the good book for nothing.'
Ungeverschmutzig
When we say something is ungeverschmutzig
We mean that it's dirty — not morally dirty
Of which maybe you can imagine examples
But physically foul like one time a big lizard
Ran into my car when I left the door open
And it went under the dashboard and died
So you can imagine the rest or once in NYC
There was something ungeverschmutzig
And I cleaned it up because I knew that if
I didn't do it nobody else would! Schmutzig
Means normally or moderately dirty and
Verschmutzig means it is getting dirtier
And finally there is ungeverschmutzig
Which is so nauseating it's unbelievable.