Poets Answer Another Age-Old Question: How Many Poets Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb? 3. Robert Frost

This month we will be addressing the question of how many poets it takes to change a light bulb. This week: Robert Frost.

FROST: My little horse must harbor doubt.
HORSE: Why change a light that isn’t out?
FROST: But if I wait for it to die
Then I can’t find a bulb–that’s why.

Poets Answer another Age-Old Question: How Many Poets Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb? 2: Elizabeth Bishop

Poets Answer another Age-Old Question

How Many Poets Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb?

Elizabeth bishop

The art of changing isn’t hard to master
unless you lose the bulb, it ends up smashed, or
some other problem leads to light disaster.