Andrew Marvell calls the Poetry Crisis Line

JERRY (counselor): Poetry Crisis Line, what is your emergency?
ANDREW MARVELL (caller): My vegetable love
JERRY: Are you into carrots? Cucumbers? I’m not judging.
MARVELL: shall grow
JERRY: Prize-winning zucchini?
MARVELL: vaster than empires
JERRY: Sequoias?
MARVELL: and more slow.
JERRY: That giant subterranean fungus in Oregon?

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