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Famous Anesthetic Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Anesthetic poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous anesthetic poems. These examples illustrate what a famous anesthetic poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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by Lehman, David
...
and when we got outside and shook hands 
I noticed he was blind. Goodbye,
I said, as giddy as a man waking
from an anesthetic in the recovery room,
happy, with a hard-on. The cabs were
on strike on Broadway so beautiful
a necklace of yellow beads
I breathed in the fumes impossibly happy...Read more of this...



by Nash, Ogden
...isn’t, they park.
It is pleasant to gaze at the sailors,
To gaze without having to sail.

How pleasant the salt anesthetic
Of the air and the sand and the sun;
Leave the earth to the strong and athletic,
And the sea to adventure upon.
 But the sun and the sand
 No contractor can copy;
 We lie in the land
 Of the lotus and poppy;
We vegetate, calm and aesthetic,
On the beach, on the sand, in the sun....Read more of this...

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