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 deep water in the travel poster finds me
In the change as I was about to back away
From the idea of the comedy around us—
I’d had a “good night’s sleep,” meaning
thinking of waking, and waking,
shifting closer together, and then not.
What kind of a mentality
causes men to commit suicide in their air-conditioned glass
boxes?
Then I reached the field and I thought
this is not a joke not a book
but a poem about something—but what?
as was proven
when they entered the house
in which the priest was,
If we are going to mean in so many ways
let them all be lopped off.
For all I know I was meant to be one of those marchers
into a microtonal near-future whose pile has worn away—
Not that it was needed that much, this much
was clear. A little cleverness would do
Silly girls your heads full of boys
There is a last sample of talk on the outer side
Your stand at last lifts to dumb evening
Did he describe the blue stripe again,
unelected governor?
And from trees to hospitals, one story