History of the Twentieth Century (A Roadshow) (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
The Sun's in its orbit, yet I feel morbid.Act 1PrologueLadies and gentlemen and the day!All ye made of sweet human clay!Let ...
The Sun's in its orbit, yet I feel morbid.Act 1PrologueLadies and gentlemen and the day!All ye made of sweet human clay!Let ...
Comrades! the end of the world's at hand! Our round earth planet? Ah, no;The planet shall roll, and the great sun ...
O ye women! WIMMIN! WEEMIN!!See our tears repentant streamin'!See the pearly drops a-gleamin', Streamin' from our rheumy eye!Mark our weskits ...
Now this is the ballad of Jeremy Jones, And likewise of Bobadil Brown,Of the Snooks and the Snaggers and Macs ...
When Johnnie Bull pledges his word, To keep it he'll gird on his sword, While ...
In early, prehistoric days, before the reign of Man,When neolithic Nature fashioned things upon a planThat was large as it ...
Mister Chairman; - er - ah - when We right-thinking business men Are treated with ...
Mr. Pericles, M.P., In four-sixty-nine B.C.,Outed Cimon at a general election; Premier Cimon, thuswise ex-ed, Was quite naturally vexed,And ...
With genuflexions to Kipling's _"The Ladies"_We've taken our cooks where we've found 'em; We've answered many an ad;We've had our ...
Of all kinds of conveyances, I think the omnibusFor many little reasons should be voted best by us;But there are ...
Said the Socialist to the Suffragist: "My cause is greater than yours! You only work for a Special ...
War raged around this troubled world, When I was but a lad,And into battle men were hurled, As some ambition ...
You yell at everything; you yell and yell:You would be horrified if all went well.You yelled at Papandreou, worthy man,A ...
(a) radical ban all fires and places where people congregate to create comfort put an end to sleep good cooking ...
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
"the cure of souls." Henry James The radiant soda of the seashore fashions Fun, foam and freedom. The sea laves ...
When young I was a Socialist Despite my tender years; No blessed chance I ever missed To slam the profiteers. ...
The Premier and the Socialist Were walking through the State: They wept to see the Savings Bank Such funds accumulate. ...
Scene: Federal Political Arena A darkened cave. In the middle, a cauldron, boiling. Enter the three witches. 1ST WITCH: Thrice ...
It's grand to be a squatter And sit upon a post, And watch your little ewes and lambs A-giving up ...
I'd tear like a wolf at bureaucracy. For mandates my respect's but the slightest. To the devil himself I'd chuck ...
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