CORPSE AND BEANS, OR WHAT IS POETRY?

Bill Knott

CORPSE AND BEANS, OR

WHAT IS POETRY?

I sit at my table and sometimes the question of poetry crosses my mind

For example

                     The man who one night ate a big plate of beans

Then got tired

                        Of everything and killed himself

Next day at the burial

Everyone said, What's that noise?

Was it poetry?

[wierszyk Billa Knotta  (1940-2014) z tomu Auto-Necrophilia; The __ Poems, Book 2 skopiowałem ze strony Richarda Hella]