A poem by Alan Dugan
Oh I got up and went to work
and worked and came back home
and ate and talked and went to sleep.
Then I got up and went to work
and worked and came back home
from work and ate and slept.
Then I got up and went to work
and worked and came back home
and ate and watched a show and slept.
Then I got up and went to work
and worked and came back home
and ate steak and went to sleep.
Then I got up and went to work
and worked and came back home
and ate and fucked and went to sleep.
Then it was Saturday, Saturday, Saturday!
Love must be the reason for the week!
We went shopping! I saw clouds!
The children explained everything!
I could talk about the main thing!
What did I drink on Saturday night
that lost the first, best half of Sunday?
The last half wasn’t worth this “word.”
Then I got up and went to work
and worked and came back home
from work and ate and went to sleep,
refreshed but tired by the weekend.
A few random poems:
- Ballades V – Of His Choice Of A Sepulchre poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Огюст Барбье – Ни кротостью, ни негой ясной
- In Memoriam 131: O Living Will That Shalt Endure poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Виктор Павлов – Милосердие в моем понимании
- Doomes-Day: The Eleventh Houre by William Alexander
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- On Virtue by Phillis Wheatley
- Ольга Седакова – Ни темной старины заветные преданья
- Омар Хайям – Это время любви, словно тёплая осень
- Ольга Ермолаева – Вот сойдешь с ума и станешь Юрия
- The Ballad Of Father O’Hart by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: There Was A Bonie Lass:
- Robert Burns: Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux:
- Владимир Корнилов – Прежнее слово
- A Tale. June 1793 by William Cowper
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.