Poem of the Day
Yellow Striped Pajamas
By Shamsher Bahadur Singh
walking silently on his paws, he emerges from the semidarkness and disappears into it.
walking silently on his paws, he emerges from the semidarkness and disappears into it.
The heart under your heart
is not the one you share
so readily o full of pleasantry
woe our good kaspar is dead
who will wear now the burning flag in a braid who will crank the coffee grinder
who will lure the idyllic deer
ADDRESS ME, I said, and I meant “please speak.”
“Oh you mean UNDRESS ME,” one said and turned.
Why was soul not solar, not solid?
“Oh, stylists try, but hats just don’t come back!”
A sub- or super-sensibility,
exquisitely fine-tuned, can summon up
special information, specially told:
"Oh, murder!" she was heard to mutter, or
"Mary mother of god!" You see how close
these utterances come? Please kiss me, Mom.
I said something nonsensical to them
and they mocked back, "but we're your one design,"
or "you're our one design"—which was it?
Only the dead don’t know
what heaven’s like. For the rest
extrapolation is possible.
Destruction follows from the first premise.
In the sunsets you can see it happening.