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 ...
A Memorial for Dylan Thomas IThey are murdering all the young men.For half a century now, every day,They have hunted them ...
1. E. LarionovaE. Larionova. Brunette. A colonel'sand a typist's daughter. Lookedat you like someone studying a clockface.She tried to help ...
Leron-leron sinta, umakyat sa papayaDala-dala'y buslo', sisidlan ng bungaIn a dusty village in Cagayan Valley,Ramon and his father were planting ...
A Squad of regular infantryIn the Commune's closing days,Had captured a crowd of rebelsBy the wall of Pere-la-Chaise.There were desperate ...
When he finds his wife in bed with another man--The conservative politician feels an ache in his stomach,remembers the longanisa ...
I am a gentle Anarchist,I couldn't kick a dog,Nor ever would for sport assistTo pelt the helpless frog.I'd shoot a ...
What is your feeling about the revolutionary spirit of your age, as expressed, for instance, in such movements as communism, ...
First they came for the Communists,and I didn't speak up,because I wasn't a Communist.Then they came for the Jews,and I ...
-from the butcher's cat to the alley cat-You speak of hungerThat means you are a communistThat means you burned down ...
Private Scott of the Highlanders,Strutted and swanked in the market-place.Each flap and lapel set smooth in place,Buttons polished to mirror ...
And the Communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks and eyeglasses and lying policemen and the Capitalists proffer Napalm ...
I've lived all my life i' Keighley, I'm a Yorkshire artisan;An' when I were just turned seventy I ...
Come Jack, our place is with the ruckOn the open road today,Not with the tepid "footpath sneak"Or with the wise ...
I'm delighted by the velocity of money as it whistles through the windows of Lower East SideDelighted by skyscrapers rising ...
Is that the only way we can become like Indians, like Rhinoceri, like Quartz Crystals, like organic farmers, like what ...
It is time to give that-of-myself which I could not at first:To offer you now at last my least and ...
Karl MarxWas completely wrapped up in his sharks.The poor creatures seriously missed himWhilst he was attacking the capitalist system.(Edmund Clerihew ...
When from his cave, young Mao in his youthful mind A work to renew old China first designed, Then he ...
Guard yourself from the terrible empty light of space, the bottomless Pool of the stars. (Expose yourself to it: you ...
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
I In the depths of the Greyhound Terminal sitting dumbly on a baggage truck looking at the sky waiting for ...
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing. America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956. I can't ...
THE HUNCHBACK TROUT The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was ...
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
Minnow, go to sleep and dream, Close your great big eyes; Round your bed Events prepare The pleasantest surprise. Darling ...
It is time to give that-of-myself which I could not at first: To offer you now at last my least ...
This is the yarn he told me As we sat in Casey's Bar, That Rooshun mug who scammed from the ...
When young I was a Socialist Despite my tender years; No blessed chance I ever missed To slam the profiteers. ...
Thoughts, go your way home. Embrace, depths of the soul and the sea. In my view, it is stupid to ...
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