Roshambo
stone got
the better of paper
as I oblige myself with six
bottles of wine
Cheerful poems
Cheerful poems — a collection of the best works on PoemShip.
Red at night
wine tongues
bringing night home
in our blood
Small bladder blues
O my bladder
strain to reserve one
spoonful of beer
morning and evening
you are a new-drawn knife
old canary
you never sing till night
a great discharging
Procrastinator
I have come to the height of neglect
the not-done not minded at all
give me a knock on the head
with a rose full of sorrow
my not-doing is made
out of hope and shame
Ode to my socks
my stockings
walk to white noon
cover the world
with a hired ground
useful things to air
like a cheap bed
Chapeau
give me a hat
like an ambassador to the air
warm and light
and I go fresh to my thin ice
Charm against busyness
O my legs
be still
be off to my wife
to bed
Beached
a folly of hot hips
laid out on sand
joy thin
as a late supper
Too rich
O plate O my wrong spoon
I cannot eat as we used to
the evils I order for dinner
the ice and the gin
less and less able to bear it
though it be light I served up
Congressman
measure me for a black suit
full of yesterday’s pleasure
I shall do business with loss and war
till my eyes begin to fail
and I begin to take a rat
home to supper
Joy
joy is a swan in the mind
a door open to anything
a psalm against money
the night fox
Distraction
all-morning dispute
I break off half a cake
to poke at
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