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.
Be ever after merry,
My dear Miss Terriberry:
Enjoy a very very
His head and legs were like a watch work’s ticking,
but spaced by intervals of what seemed thought.
That women in their marble glory still
had pubic hair so startled Ruskin he
turned impotent, and had to be divorced.
Off, on—there must be something else,
some middle way, third eye, or shakti current.
Motion, motion.
Within the body cells
each nucleus rotates widdershins
Although stone nudes are everywhere—some crammed
two to a column, supple caryatids,
and others mooning in the Tuileries—
At first, he wondered why he should be spared;
Observed, of all the windows, none was barred,
And every door swung open at a word.
I walk along the shore.
Wind's salt tongue licks my face.
And see—beyond the swells
Pool at the Antzo-mendi
The Antzo-mendi bar was where
we went when we were male adolescents.
The place was big
and had a pool table in the middle.
Wooden floors.
You heard Velvet Underground there,
Ziggy Stardust.
Trotsky for me was riding
high up on the back of the tractor.
Trotsky for me was taking a bath naked
with my little friend in the bathtub.