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yo /lit/

tomorrow April 14, 2011 is Poem in your Pocket day. What are you going to carry?

me: The Second Coming, W.B. Yeats

>> No.1699630

Louis Zukofsky - "A"

>> No.1699631

Chaucer by Ted Hughes. It's like carrying the essence of three poets at once.

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1699634

prufrock

and i will wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled

>> No.1699637

shit, for me it's today.

Hmm, Fire and Ice, The Twa Corbies or The Housewifes Lament

>> No.1699643

I'm thinking "White Heliotrope" by Symons

>> No.1699645

Poem in your Pocket Day? Seriously? That's ridiculous.

>> No.1699647

>>1699637
no, I'll bring 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'. No one will see it.

>> No.1700530

A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day - John Donne

>> No.1700597

>>1699626
>>1699634
Good choices!

Shame The Waste Land won't fit in a pocket.

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1700604

Something by Swinburne. Having his sweet, sweet prose in my pocket is the closest thing that I will ever have to sex with a woman.

And the closest thing that I've ever had to sex with a man is fellatio.

captcha: elocanCP sir?