Wednesday, April 20, 2011

POEM OF THE DAY BY CHARLES OLSON

The Songs of Maximus: Song 1

colored pictures

of all things to eat: dirty
postcards
And words, words, words
all over everything
No eyes or ears left
to do their own doings (all

invaded, appropriated, outraged, all senses

including the mind, that worker on what is
And that other sense
made to give even the most wretched, or any of us, wretched,
that consolation (greased
lulled
even the street-cars

song


-Charles Olson

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