Monroeville, PA
One day a kid yelled
"Hey Asshole!"
and everybody on the street
turned around
-- Ed Ochester
The poem appeared in Poetry in 2000 and in Ed Ochester's book WHITE HORSES: SELECTED POEMS (Autumn House Press). Originally in Poetry.
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
One day everybody
on the street turned around
and saw an asshole
named Ed Ochester
Posted by: Efrain | March 15, 2009 at 05:06 PM