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Category: Gertrude Stein
More Costume Ideas for Poets
Poets Answer an Age-Old Question: Why did the chicken cross the road? (part 2)
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
Allen Ginsberg
I saw the best hens of my generation destroyed by butchers, roasted, rotisserie-basted,
wandering across the street at dawn looking for a bawdy cock.
Elizabeth Bishop
The art of crossing isn’t hard to master–
when asphalt’s hot, it helps if you cross faster.
Gertrude Stein
The road
is a road
is a road
is a road
to cross
like a boss
and eat moss.
Click here for part 1 (featuring Dickinson, Whitman, and Shakespeare).
Costume Ideas for Poets Part 2: More Options for Women
Because a friend rightly pointed out that the last post didn’t offer a lot of options for women to choose from.
Gertrude Stein calls the Poetry Crisis Line
COUNSELOR: Poetry Crisis Line, what is your emergency?
CALLER: Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
COUNSELOR: If you called her something else, would she smell as sweet?