71. American Poetry

Louis Simpson (1923–2012)

American Poetry

Whatever it is, it must have
A stomach that can digest
Rubber, coal, uranium, moons, poems.

Like the shark it contains a shoe.
It must swim for miles through the desert
Uttering cries that are almost human.

Louis Simpson, “American Poetry” from The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001. (BOA Editions Ltd., 2003)

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