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TheGoldStandard said:
As you wish. This is the classic version I heard as a kid:


There once was a man from Nantucket,
Who kept all his dreams in a bucket.
But then came a dame,
He'd heard not her name,
Who smiled and said, “Sir, let’s up-chuck it.”

She danced in the night with a wink,
With moves that would make your heart sink.
Hearsky's dear mother,
Could suck like no other,
Could charm both a priest and a shrink.

They whispered her tales in the bay,
Of Jazz fanz who’d beg her to stay.
But she'd just grin wide,
With no need to hide—
She lived life her own daring way.
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If I tried to write a limerick in here, it would be all ****s and ****.
 
Rubashov said:


Not quite poetry but soliloquy....
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The Guardian did a series a few years ago of actors doing some of the great soliloquies. The best of them, I think, is the one from Julius Caesar, but I will match your Hamlet:

People who don't get Shakespeare have never seen it done well. Maybe they've only read it in English, or watched high school performances. But real actors can take it to a new level.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muLAzfQDS3M
 
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Hekate said:
Nothing beats the simplicity for me. Carlos Williams Carlos is a go to.

This is just to say

I have eaten

the plums

that were in

the icebox

and which

you were probably

savingt

for breakfast

Forgive me

they were delicious

so sweet

and so cold
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There it is! It drove me insane a week ago as I was trying to remember a poet whose Finnish translations I have, and couldn't find that book anywhere. Now I at least remembered the name bc you posted his work. Now I try find the book as well but there's a chance someone borrowed it. As probable or more is, my flat is always a complete mess so it can be anywhere here lol.
 
Meant to post those in Last Good Song but I guess they're pretty poetic.
 
COPS - by Jim Carroll, 1969

I notice that cops
are often tense
Often awkward people

in getting off buses
cops don’t wait
for the green light to indicate the door is open
leaving them pounding on it
and disturbing my nod

cops lack imagination.
who that carries a gun so close to his thigh
possesses imagination?

how can cops
with their awkwardness
and feeble imagination
even begin to think of themselves as good sex partners?

you would laugh
at a cop in bed.

cops are paranoid
they jitter as they walk
they don’t breathe air easily

realizing my basic
freedom
I breathe the air quite easily
as I walk to places where I see less cops.

Some people seem
to like cops
I, for one, do not dig these mother ****ers.
 
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