A poem by Alan Dugan
What is better than leaving a bar
in the middle of the afternoon
besides staying in it or not
having gone into it in the first place
because you had a decent woman to be with?
The air smells particularly fresh
after the stale beer and piss smells.
You can stare up at the whole sky:
it’s blue and white and does not
stare back at you like the bar mirror,
and there’s Whats-‘is-name coming out
right behind you saying, “I don’t
believe it, I don’t believe it: there
he is, staring up at the fucking sky
with his mouth open. Don’t
you realize, you stupid son of a bitch,
that it is a quarter to four
and we have to clock in in
fifteen minutes to go to work?”
So we go to work and do no work
and can even breathe in the Bull’s face
because he’s been into the other bar
that we don’t go to when he’s there.
A few random poems:
- Владимир Маяковский – За четыре года советской власти… (Главполитпросвет №248)
- One Inch Tall by Shel Silverstein
- Олег Бундур – Бесконечность
- Surreal landscapes by Sunil Sharma
- Наум Коржавин – Люди пашут каждый раз опять
- The Deep-Sea Cables by Rudyard Kipling
- Balin and Balan poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Ольга Ермолаева – В кирзовых сапогах скользить по горной глине
- Гавриил Державин – Храповицкому (Храповицкий! дружбы знаки)
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Суд
- When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d. by Walt Whitman
- Федор Тютчев – К портрету государственного канцлера, князя А.М. Горчакова
- Аля Кудряшева – Про ангелов
- Robert Burns: Philly And Willy:
- Letter In November by Sylvia Plath
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.