This is my third favorite form the book.
Some Like Poetry
by Wislawa Szymborska
Some-
not all, that is.
Not even the majority of all, but the minority.
Not counting school, where one must,
or the poets themselves,
there'd be maybe two such people in a thousand.
Like-
but one also likes chicken-noodle soup,
one likes compliments and the color blue,
one likes an old scarf,
one likes to prove one's point,
one likes to pet a dog.
Poetry-
but what sort of thing is poetry?
Many a shaky answer
has been given to this question.
Bit I do not know and do not know and hold on to it,
as to a saving bannister.
by Wislawa Szymborska
Some-
not all, that is.
Not even the majority of all, but the minority.
Not counting school, where one must,
or the poets themselves,
there'd be maybe two such people in a thousand.
Like-
but one also likes chicken-noodle soup,
one likes compliments and the color blue,
one likes an old scarf,
one likes to prove one's point,
one likes to pet a dog.
Poetry-
but what sort of thing is poetry?
Many a shaky answer
has been given to this question.
Bit I do not know and do not know and hold on to it,
as to a saving bannister.