Purgatory
by Maxine Kumin
And suppose the darlings get to Mantua,
suppose they cheat the crypt, what next? Begin
with him, unshaven. Though not, I grant you, a
displeasing cockerel, there’s egg yolk on his chin.
His seedy robe’s aflap, he’s got the rheum.
Poor dear, the cooking lard has smoked her eye.
Another Montague is in the womb
although the first babe’s bottom’s not yet dry.
She scrolls a weekly letter to her Nurse
who dares to send a smock through Balthasar,
and once a month, his father posts a purse.
News from Verona? Always news of war.
Such sour years it takes to right this wrong!
The fifth act runs unconscionably long.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- New Year’s Dawn – Broadway by Sara Teasdale
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня солдата на часах
- Николай Заболоцкий – Царица мух
- Home After Three Months Away by Robert Lowell
- Broceliande
- Владимир Костров – Срок настал, московская богема
- Наум Коржавин – Мне без тебя так трудно жить
- Олег Бундур – Скука
- Heredity by Tony Harrison
- Winged And Acid Dark by Robert Hass
- Fragment
- Disingenuousness by Mark R Slaughter
- Вероника Тушнова – У каждого есть в жизни хоть одно,
- Duncan Gray by Robert Burns
- “‘Tis because, though in dusky bower” poem – Alfred Austin
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