Fabrication Of Ancestors

A poem by Alan Dugan

For old Billy Dugan, shot in the ass in the Civil War, my father said.

The old wound in my ass

has opened up again, but I

am past the prodigies

of youth’s campaigns, and weep

where I used to laugh

in war’s red humors, half

in love with silly-assed pains

and half not feeling them.

I have to sit up with

an indoor unsittable itch

before I go down late

and weeping to the storm-

cellar on a dirty night

and go to bed with the worms.

So pull the dirt up over me

and make a family joke

for Old Billy Blue Balls,

the oldest private in the world

with two ass-holes and no

place more to go to for a laugh

except the last one. Say:

The North won the Civil War

without much help from me

although I wear a proof

of the war’s obscenity.

Poetry Monster – Home

A few random poems:

External links

Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus

Talking Writing Monster’s Page –

Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Poems in English 

• Hobbinol; or The Rural Games – Canto 2 by William Somervile by William Somerville
• Hare-hunting by William Somervile by William Somerville
• Fortune-Hunter, The – Canto 5 by William Somervile by William Somerville
• Fortune-Hunter, The – Canto 3 by William Somervile by William Somerville
• Fortune-Hunter, The – Canto 1 by William Somervile by William Somerville
• For the Lute by William Somervile by William Somerville
• First let the kennel be the huntsman’s care by William Somervile by William Somerville
• Field Sports by William Somervile by William Somerville
• Epistle from Mr. Somerville, An by William Somervile by William Somerville
• Chase, The – Book 1 by William Somervile by William Somerville
• All-Accomplished Rover by William Somervile by William Somerville
• Advice to the Ladies by William Somervile by William Somerville
• Address to His Elbow-Chair, New Cloath’d, An by William Somervile by William Somerville
• A Padlock for the Mouth by William Somervile by William Somerville
• “Young England–What Is Then Become Of Old” by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Yew-Trees by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• “Yes! Thou Art Fair, Yet Be Not Moved” by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Yes, It Was The Mountain Echo by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Yarrow Visited by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Yarrow Unvisited by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

Doska or the Board – write anything

Search engines:

Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.

Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees

Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

Parallel Translations of Poetry

Poems by Author and Category

The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works