Famous Lobotomy Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Lobotomy poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous lobotomy poems. These examples illustrate what a famous lobotomy poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Schwartz, Delmore
...nothing but a poem when he is writing
Until he is absent-minded as the dead are
Forgetful as the nymphs of Lethe and a lobotomy...
("the fat weed that rots on Lethe wharf")....Read more of this...
by
Ginsberg, Allen
...on the
granite steps of the madhouse with shaven heads
and harlequin speech of suicide, demanding in-
stantaneous lobotomy,
and who were given instead the concrete void of insulin
Metrazol electricity hydrotherapy psycho-
therapy occupational therapy pingpong &
amnesia,
who in humorless protest overturned only one symbolic
pingpong table, resting briefly in catatonia,
returning years later truly bald except for a wig of
blood, and tears and fingers, to the ...Read more of this...
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