Kenneth Patchen
Ohio
We Go Out Together In The Staring Town
Rating: ★2.8
We go out together into the staring town
And buy cheese and bread and little jugs with
flowered labels
Everywhere is a tent where we put on our whirling
show
A great deal has been said of the handless serpents
Which war has set loose in the gay milk of our
heads
But because you braid your hair and taste like
honey of heaven
We go together into town to buy wine and
yellow candles.
And buy cheese and bread and little jugs with
flowered labels
Everywhere is a tent where we put on our whirling
show
A great deal has been said of the handless serpents
Which war has set loose in the gay milk of our
heads
But because you braid your hair and taste like
honey of heaven
We go together into town to buy wine and
yellow candles.
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COMMENTS
Chinedu Dike
25 October 2019
Well expressed thoughts and feeling. An insightful work of art written with conviction.
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Terry Craddock
13 December 2016
I wonder why everyone was staring, war is a focus point, 'we put on our whirling
show' could be a metaphor for live fast as dying young; I would be interested in the background context of this poem.
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Ratnakar Mandlik
13 December 2016
Congrats on the modern poem of the Day and thanks for sharing.
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Edward Kofi Louis
13 December 2016
Wine and yellow candles. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
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