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Famous Heart Attack Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb
 Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you
 Do I hate the mischievous thunderbolt the jawbone of an ass
 The bumpy club of One Million B.C. the mace the flail the axe
 Catapult Da Vinci tomahawk Cochise flintlock Kidd dagger Rathbone
 Ah and the sad desparate gun of Verlaine Pushkin Dillinger Bo...Read more of this...
by Corso, Gregory



...torpedoed in the North Atlantic and floated

there day after day until death did not want him. He had a

young wife, a heart attack, a Volkswagen and a home in

Marin County. He liked the works of George Orwell, Richard

Aldington and Edmund Wilson.

 He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky

and then from the whores of New Orleans.

 The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards.

Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars.

Most of the kooks...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard
...prised. He had no idea the mountains

 would be so crowded.

 At the seventeenth campground, a man had just died of a

 heart attack and the ambulance attendants were taking down

 his tent. They lowered the center pole and then pulled up the

 corner stakes. They folded the tent neatly and put it in the

 back of the ambulance, right beside the man's body.

 They drove off down the road, leaving behind them in the

 air, a cloud of brilliant white dust. The dust looked like ...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard
...percentage in wasting a gartersnake. But

 I had to get rid of the things because she always promisedme

 she'd have a heart attack if she ever stepped on one of them.

 So I'd catch them and deport them to a yard across the

 street, where nine old ladies probably had heart attacks and

 died from finding those snakes in their toothbrushes. Fortu-

 n ately, I was never around when their bodies were taken awa!

 I'd clean the blackberry hushes out of the lilac hushes.

 Onc...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard

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