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:
- The Moment I knew my Life had Changed by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
- Нина Гаген-Торн – Возвращение
- Владимир Набоков – В полнолунье, в гостиной пыльной и пышной
- Николай Заболоцкий – Сентябрь
- Swallows by Richard Schiffman
- In Tempore Senectutis poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Граждане, ах, сколько ж я не пел
- Ballad of the Old Cypress by Tu Fu
- All The Time In The World by Shel Silverstein
- Юнна Мориц – В цирке
- Николай Языков – Песня (Я жду тебя, когда вечерней мглою)
- Seeking Beauty by William Henry Davies
- Grandmother’s Teaching poem – Alfred Austin
- Chorus of Athenians poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded poem – A. E. Housman
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Poems in English
- A Song by Thomas Carew
- A prayer to the Wind by Thomas Carew
- A Divine Mistress by Thomas Carew
- A Cruel Mistress. by Thomas Carew
- Specula by Thomas Edward Brown
- Salve! by Thomas Edward Brown
- Risus Dei by Thomas Edward Brown
- Pain by Thomas Edward Brown
- Opifex by Thomas Edward Brown
- My Garden by Thomas Edward Brown
- Land, Ho! by Thomas Edward Brown
- Jessie by Thomas Edward Brown
- If Thou Could’st Empty All Thyself Of Self by Thomas Edward Brown
- Ibant Obscur? by Thomas Edward Brown
- I bended unto me a Bough by Thomas Edward Brown
- Dora by Thomas Edward Brown
- Disguises by Thomas Edward Brown
- Time of Roses by Thomas Hood
- Tim Turpin by Thomas Hood
- The World is with Me by Thomas Hood
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.