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Famous Bathtubs Poems by Famous Poets

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by Schwartz, Delmore
...I should have been a plumber fixing drains.
And mending pure white bathtubs for the great Diogenes
(who scorned all lies, all liars, and all tyrannies),

And then, perhaps, he would bestow on me -- majesty!
(O modesty aside, forgive my fallen pride, O hidden
 majesty,
The lamp, the lantern, the lucid light he sought for 

 All too often -- sick humanity!)...Read More



by Schwartz, Delmore
...its motionless, amidst or at the heart
Of the orb of its web: other kinds run,
Scuttling across the floor, falling into bathtubs,
Trapped in the path of its own wrath, by overconfidence
 drowned and undone.

Other kinds - more and more kinds under the stars and
 the sun -
Are carnivores: all are relentless, ruthless
Enemies of insects. Their methods of getting food
Are unconventional, numerous, various and sometimes
 hilarious:
Some spiders spin webs as beautiful
As J...Read More

by Atwood, Margaret
...ws

Other people are leaving
but I always stay till the end
I paid my money, I
want to see what happens.

In chance bathtubs I have to 
peel you off me
in the form of smoke and melted
celluloid
 Have to face it I'm
finally an addict,
the smell of popcorn and worn plush
lingers for weeks...Read More

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