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:
- let us go with no care by Raj Arumugam
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись на иллюминацию 1747 года перед зимним домом
- Crepuscule du Matin poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- To Elizabeth Ward Perkins poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Ольга Берггольц – Февральский дневник
- complete text of the discovery of Kama Sutra by Raj Arumugam
- I know you will remember ME by Neelam Sinha
- In This Cul De Sac
- Михаил Лермонтов – Хаджи Абрек
- Омар Хайям – Лучше локон любимой, лаская, схватить
- Гавриил Державин – Афинейскому витязю
- Михаил Лермонтов – Вид гор из степей Козлова
- A Meeting With Despair by Thomas Hardy
- Mother Nature by Walter William Safar
- Владимир Маяковский – Все на фронт добровольцами! Пока… (РОСТА)
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.