poetry friday

Annika has Poetry Wednesday, so in the spirit of slavish imitation I'm going to have Poetry Friday. Reading one or two poems a month isn't going to hurt you, and it might help. Especially if it's not filled with a lot of Thou's and O'ers and Werts.

The best poetry uses simple words. In the right way. Like this:


WORMS GO SOUTH AND THEY FIT IN

Worms go south,
And worms go south,
And do they move though.
Worms are like locomotives;
They move, go south, exist; go south, move, exist, do something.
Worms live and do their stuff, as something asks, something makes them.
Worms fit in.
They fit in, and everything is nice, and that takes in worms.
Everything is nice and that takes in worms.

-- Eli Siegel