Friday, October 20, 2023

Dostoyevsky and Applesauce 2 / $5 - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

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Dispatches for the Colonial Office

 

Dostoyevsky and Applesauce 2 / $5

 

Literature in the Supermarket

 

The nice young man who bags my purchases -

He spoke to me of Notes from Underground

And who the unreliable narrator is

And how he anticipates the revolution

 

The pharmacist who jabbed me against the ‘flu –

He spoke to me of Robert E. Howard

And how Conan’s psychological issues

Anticipate the author’s death by suicide

 

A surprising conversation in a small-town grocery

But even more in a modern university

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