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Showing posts with label Poet: Alfred Kreymborg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poet: Alfred Kreymborg. Show all posts

Overheard In An Asylum -- Alfred Kreymborg

(Poem #75)Overheard In An Asylum
 And here we have another case
 quite different from the last,
 another case quite different --
 Listen.
 
 Baby, drink.
 The war is over.
 Mother's breasts
 are round with milk.
 
 Baby, rest.
 The war is over.
 Only pigs
 slop over so.
 
 Baby, sleep.
 The war is over.
 Daddy's come
 with a German coin.
 
 Baby, dream.
 The war is over.
 You'll be a soldier
 too.
 
 Yes, we gave her the doll --
 Now there we have another case
 quite different from --
-- Alfred Kreymborg