Famous Plugs Poems by Famous Poets

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Manual System

...MARY has a thingamajig clamped on her ears
And sits all day taking plugs out and sticking plugs in.
Flashes and flashes—voices and voices calling for ears to pour words in
Faces at the ends of wires asking for other faces at the ends of other wires:
All day taking plugs out and sticking plugs in,
Mary has a thingamajig clamped on her ears....Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl


Medusa

...Off that landspit of stony mouth-plugs,
Eyes rolled by white sticks,
Ears cupping the sea's incoherences,
You house your unnerving head -- God-ball,
Lens of mercies,
Your stooges
Plying their wild cells in my keel's shadow,
Pushing by like hearts,
Red stigmata at the very center,
Riding the rip tide to the nearest point of
departure,

Dragging their Jesus hair.
Did I escape, I wonder?
My mi...Read more of this...
by Bogan, Louise

Smoke and Steel

...door.

They laugh at the cost.
They lift the birdmen into the blue.
It is steel a motor sings and zooms.

In the subway plugs and drums,
In the slow hydraulic drills, in gumbo or gravel,
Under dynamo shafts in the webs of armature spiders,
They shadow-dance and laugh at the cost.

The ovens light a red dome.
Spools of fire wind and wind.
Quadrangles of crimson sputter.
The lashes of dying maroon let down.
Fire and wind wash out the slag.
Forever the slag gets washed in fire a...Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl

The Odyssey Of Erbert Iggins

...
So 'e sloshes out fixin' a dressin'
 ('E'd always a medical knack),
When that wounded 'Un
'E rolls to 'is gun,
 And 'e plugs me pal in the back.

Now what would you do? I arst you.
 There was me slaughtered mate.
There was that 'Un
(I'd collered 'is gun),
 A-snarlin' 'is 'ymn of 'ate.
Wot did I do? 'Ere, whisper . . .
 'E'd a shiny bald top to 'is 'ead,
But when I got through,
Between me and you,
 It was 'orrid and jaggy and red.

"'Ang on like a limpet, Eddy.
 Thank Gord! y...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Show

...d, that horror of harsh wire,
There moved thin caterpillars, slowly uncoiled.
It seemed they pushed themselves to be as plugs
Of ditches, where they writhed and shrivelled, killed.

By them had slimy paths been trailed and scraped
Round myriad warts that might be little hills.

From gloom's last dregs these long-strung creatures crept,
And vanished out of dawn down hidden holes.

(And smell came up from those foul openings
As out of mouths, or deep wounds deepening.)

On dith...Read more of this...
by Owen, Wilfred


Transcription Of Organ Music

...in hope with the
Father, the door to the womb wasopen to admit me
if I wished to enter.

 There are unused electricity plugs all over my
house if I ever needed them.
 The kitchen window is open, to admit air...
 The telephone--sad to relate--sits on the
floor--I haven't had the money to get it connected--

 I want people to bow when they see me and say
he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of
the Creator
 And the Creator gave me a shot of his presence
to gratify...Read more of this...
by Ginsberg, Allen

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