A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
Failing sometimes to understand
Why there are folk whose flesh should seem
Like carrion puffed with noisome steam,
Fly-blown to the eye that looks on it,
Fly-blown to the touch of a hand;
Why there are men without any legs,
Whizzing along on little trollies
With long long arms like apes’:
Failing to see why God the Topiarist
Should train and carve and twist
Men’s bodies into such fantastic shapes:
Yes, failing to see the point of it all, I sometimes wish
That I were a fabulous thing in a fool’s mind,
Or, at the ocean bottom, in a world that is deaf and blind,
Very remote and happy, a great goggling fish.
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- He, who was born poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
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- Ballade Of The Dream poem – Andrew Lang poems
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- It Would poem – Alice Notley
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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
- The Song Of The Kasak poem – Alexander Pushkin
- The Roussalka poem – Alexander Pushkin
- The Poet poem – Alexander Pushkin
- The Memorial poem – Alexander Pushkin
- The Last Flower poem – Alexander Pushkin
- The High Road In Winter poem – Alexander Pushkin
- The Duel poem – Alexander Pushkin
- The Delibash poem – Alexander Pushkin
- The Coming Of Winter poem – Alexander Pushkin
- The Coach Of Life poem – Alexander Pushkin
- The Caucas poem – Alexander Pushkin
- The Black Shawl poem – Alexander Pushkin
- The Bakchesarian Fountain poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Tempest poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Tatiana’s Letter poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Solitude poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Remembrance poem – Alexander Pushkin
- On Count Voronstov poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Old Man poem – Alexander Pushkin
- O Sing, Fair Lady, When With Me poem – Alexander Pushkin
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Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 – 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.