I’m delighted by the velocity of money as it whistles through the windows
of Lower East Side
Delighted by skyscrapers rising the old grungy apartments falling on
84th Street
Delighted by inflation that drives me out on the street
After all what good’s the family farm, why eat turkey by thousands every
Thanksgiving?
Why not have Star Wars? Why have the same old America?!?
George Washington wasn’t good enough! Tom Paine pain in the neck,
Whitman what a jerk!
I’m delighted by double digit interest rates in the Capitalist world
I always was a communist, now we’ll win
an usury makes the walls thinner, books thicker & dumber
Usury makes my poetry more valuable
my manuscripts worth their weight in useless gold –
Now everybody’s atheist like me, nothing’s sacred
buy and sell your grandmother, eat up old age homes,
Peddle babies on the street, pretty boys for sale on Times Square –
You can shoot heroin, I can sniff cocaine,
macho men can fite on the Nicaraguan border and get paid with paper!
The velocity’s what counts as the National Debt gets higher
Everybody running after the rising dollar
Crowds of joggers down broadway past City Hall on the way to the Fed
Nobody reads Dostoyevsky books so they’ll have to give a passing ear
to my fragmented ravings in between President’s speeches
Nothing’s happening but the collapse of the Economy
so I can go back to sleep till the landlord wins his eviction suit in court.
A few random poems:
- Study in Hands by Théophile Gautier
- last words to the moon by Raj Arumugam
- Criss-Cross Acrostic*: Ai My Eye ! by T. Wignesan
- Жан де Лафонтен – Львиный указ
- Гавриил Державин – На возвращение графа Зубова из Персии
- Synesthesia by Orla McGreevy
- O Wondrous Ecstatic Eyes – Chashmay Mastay poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- To Any Dead Officer by Siegfried Sassoon
- Winter039s Fall
- Михаил Кузмин – В гроте Венерином мы горим
- Grandmother’s Teaching poem – Alfred Austin
- Robert Burns: Address To The Toothache:
- Falling Stars by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Eudaemon
- Just Thinking by William Stafford
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
- Sweeney among the Nightingales by T. S. Eliot
- Rhapsody on a Windy Night by T. S. Eliot
- Preludes by T. S. Eliot
- Portrait of a Lady by T. S. Eliot
- Old Deuteronomy by T. S. Eliot
- Mungojerrie And Rumpelteazer by T. S. Eliot
- Mr. Mistoffelees by T. S. Eliot
- Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service by T. S. Eliot
- Mr. Apollinax by T. S. Eliot
- Morning at the Window by T. S. Eliot
- Mr. Apollinax by T. S. Eliot
- Morning at the Window by T. S. Eliot
- Lune de Miel by T. S. Eliot
- Le Directeur by T. S. Eliot
- La Figlia che Piange by T. S. Eliot
- Journey Of The Magi by T. S. Eliot
- Hysteria by T. S. Eliot
- Gus: The Theatre Cat by T. S. Eliot
- Growltiger’s Last Stand by T. S. Eliot
- Gerontion by T. S. Eliot
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
