[lit-ideas] Re: Not a poem

  • From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:48:02 +0900

Dead cat's in a tree.
Dead dog's in a river.
Why's that, asks the curious anthropologist.
"Hang a dog in a tree and it stinks,"
says the old farmer squatting in his field
thoughtfully chewing his betel,
preparing to spit saliva
bright red as tubercular blood.
True story this.


--
John McCreery
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Tel. +81-45-314-9324
http://www.wordworks.jp/

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