Famous Fritters Poems by Famous Poets

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His Wife The Painter

...m going to do her portrait on the 28th, while you are
at work."
He is just this edge of fat and he walks constantly, he
fritters; they have him; they are eating him hollow like 
a webbed fly, and his eyes are red-suckled with anger-fear.
He feels hatred and discard of the world, sharper than
his razor, and his gut-feel hangs like a wet polyp; and he 
self-decisions himself defeated trying to shake his
hung beard from razor in water (like life), not warm enough.
Daumier. Rue T...Read more of this...
by Bukowski, Charles


Pain

...vortex, clinging to a sedge 
Of patent good, a timorous Manichee; 

Who takes the impact of a long-breathed force, 
And fritters it away 
In eddies of disgust, that else might stay 
His nerveless heart, and fix it to the course. 

For there is threefold oneness with the One; 
And he is one, who keeps 
The homely laws of life; who, if he sleeps, 
Or wakes, in his true flesh God’s will is done. 

And he is one, who takes the deathless forms, 
Who schools himself to think 
With ...Read more of this...
by Brown, Thomas Edward

Some Rainbow -- coming from the Fair!

...Vision of the World Cashmere --
I confidently see!
Or else a Peacock's purple Train
Feather by feather -- on the plain
Fritters itself away!

The dreamy Butterflies bestir!
Lethargic pools resume the whir
Of last year's sundered tune!
From some old Fortress on the sun
Baronial Bees -- march -- one by one --
In murmuring platoon!

The Robins stand as thick today
As flakes of snow stood yesterday --
On fence -- and Roof -- and Twig!
The Orchis binds her feather on
For her old ...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

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