Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Plautus and Tarzan - poem

Lawrence Hall
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Plautus and Tarzan

The plays of Plautus all repose in peace
Next to my boyhood’s tattered Tarzan books
University classes and summer days
I suppose Mercury brought his own vines

Kafka is up against Rilke and Parzival
They seem to get along with each other
Cavafy and Plath talk out their issues
As do Hammarskjold and Dostoyevsky

I mean to organize my books someday
But Thoreau suggests I go fishing instead

2 comments:

W.k.kortas said...

Just this one time, I will not argue with Thoreau.

Lawrence Hall, HSG said...

He has his moments: "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."