William Carlos Williams

This Is Just To Say

I have eaten

the plums

that were in

the ice box

om yom yom

Complete Destruction

It was an icy day.

We buried the cat,

then took her box

and set fire to it

Boom!

The Wheelbarrow

So much depends

upon

a red wheel

barrow,

shits

fucked up

3 Stances

your long legs

built

to carry high

the small head

your grandfather,

that jabroni

Play

Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am,

By what devious means do you contrive

To remain idle?

Should get that brick app

The Crowd At The Ball Game

The crowd at the ball game

is moved uniformly

by a spirit of uselessness

Which delights them—

all the exciting detail

of the chase

will be on Jomboy

for sure dude

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

According to Brueghel,

when Icarus fell

it was spring

a farmer was ploughing

his field

the whole pageantry

was ill

Pickles

what name could

better

explode from

a sleeping pup

but this

leaping

to his feet

Pickles!

Pickles! Pickles!

Editor’s Note: Pickles is the name of the Williamses’ Shetland sheep-dog.