Elizabeth Swados

Elizabeth Swados Poems

Tsss
Summer sounds,
Tsss
Concrete and heat,
...

WE have a toilet that
has remained broken for five weeks now.
It continues to flush itself
whenever it feels the urge.
...

A breast grows in my head
My brain has a nipple
The milk sways back and forth
making the lobes slosh
...

YOU will uproot and move
and there will be nothing.
...

SIT on your hands
until that mouth of yours
can say something useful to the brook
...

Her music is strange
because the pen is a man's pen
and her fingernails are polished red.
...

7.

The shaking, the sleep
The shaking, the sleep
the not remembered dreams that have you waking up
sudden
...

Elizabeth Swados Biography

Elizabeth Swados (born February 5, 1951) is an American writer, composer, musician, and theatre director. While some of her subject matter is humorous, such as her satirical look at Ronald Reagan, Rap Master Ronnie, and Doonesbury - both collaborations with Garry Trudeau - much of her work deals with dark issues such as racism, murder, and mental illness. Born February 5, 1951 in Buffalo, New York, Swados has been open about her turbulent life in her autobiography The Four of Us, A Family Memoir published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1991. Her father, Robert O. Swados, was a very successful attorney who helped Seymour H. Knox III convert the local Buffalo Sabres hockey club into a full National Hockey League team. His autobiography, Counsel in the Crease: A Big League Player in the Hockey Wars was published by Prometheus Books in 2005. Her actress mother struggled with depression, while her older brother (and only sibling) Lincoln developed schizophrenia. Her mother committed suicide in 1974, and Lincoln died in 1989. Swados herself has suffered from depression from childhood on, a condition she explored in her book My Depression: A Picture Book. Swados studied music at Bennington College in Vermont, receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973. In 1980, the Hobart and William Smith College awarded her an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters.)

The Best Poem Of Elizabeth Swados

Summer

Tsss
Summer sounds,
Tsss
Concrete and heat,
Sneakered feet on tar,
Stepping on a melted candy bar,
Squish
Crunch, crunch
Gravel on the street,
Woosh
Hydrant waterfall,
Zzzzt
The sun's an orange basketball,
Bonk bonk
Summer sounds,
And then the
Summer's gone.

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