Famous Switchboard Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Switchboard poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous switchboard poems. These examples illustrate what a famous switchboard poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Roethke, Theodore
...ll the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,
Desolation in immaculate public places,
Lonely reception room, lavatory, switchboard,
The unalterable pathos of basin and pitcher,
Ritual of multigraph, paper-clip, comma,
Endless duplication of lives and objects.
And I have seen dust from the walls of institutions,
Finer than flour, alive, more dangerous than silica,
Sift, almost invisible, through long afternoons of tedium,
Dropping a fine film on nails and delicate eyebrow...Read more of this...
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