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In the current Atlantic,
the time-waster who got the coveted assignment
to write about "The Waste Land"
on the poem's one hundreth birthday
begins with these three questions:
"Why is April the cruellest month?
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Why do people watch golf of television?"
Really. -- WC
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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
Which of these questions, if any, did the clever writer answer?
Posted by: Karen Beckworth | December 19, 2022 at 01:12 PM