Famous Cyanide Poems by Famous Poets

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My World Is Pyramid

...hwork halves were cloven as they scudded
The wild pigs' wood, and slime upon the trees,
Sucking the dark, kissed on the cyanide,
And loosed the braiding adders from their hairs,
Rotating halves are horning as they drill
The arterial angel.

What colour is glory? death's feather? tremble
The halves that pierce the pin's point in the air,
And prick the thumb-stained heaven through the thimble.
The ghost is dumb that stammered in the straw,
The ghost that hatched his havoc as he...Read more of this...
by Thomas, Dylan


Part 5 of Trout Fishing in America

...ving and dead.

 O, THERE ARE COYOTES UP ON SALT CREEK so the

sign on the trail says, and it also says, WATCH OUT FOR

CYANIDE CAPSULES PUT ALONG THE CREEK TO KILL

COYOTES. DON'T PICK THEM UP AND EAT THEM. NOT

THEY'LL KILL YOU. LEAVE

UNLESS YOU'RE A COYOTE.

THE M ALONE.

 Then the sign says this all over again in Spanish. i AH !

HAY COYOTES EN SALT CREEK, TAMBIEN. CULDADO

CON LAS CAPSULAS DE CIANURO: MATAN. NO LAS

COMA; A MENOS QUE SEA VD. UN COYOTE. I12ATAN.

NO LAS ...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard

Sainte-Nitouche

...eave them in the lurch.

“That’s why I have you here with me 
To-night: you know a talk may take 
The place of bromide, cyanide, 
Et cetera. For heaven’s sake, 

“Why do you look at me like that?
What have I done to freeze you so? 
Dear man, you see where friendship means 
A few things yet that you don’t know; 

“And you see partly why it is 
That I am glad for what is gone:
For Sainte-Nitouche and for the world 
In me that followed. What lives on— 

“Well, here you have it: ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

Woodchucks

...t with puddingstone,
but they had a sub-sub-basement out of range.

Next morning they turned up again, no worse
for the cyanide than we for our cigarettes
and state-store Scotch, all of us up to scratch.
They brought down the marigolds as a matter of course
and then took over the vegetable patch
nipping the broccoli shoots, beheading the carrots.

The food from our mouths, I said, righteously thrilling
to the feel of the .22, the bullets' neat noses.
I, a lapsed pacifist fall...Read more of this...
by Kumin, Maxine

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