Famous Truss Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Send No Money

...ws of what happened to happen.
What does it prove? Sod all.
In this way I spent youth,
Tracing the trite untransferable
Truss-advertisement, truth....Read more of this...
by Larkin, Philip


The Church-Builder

...
Then from below 
My garment, so, 
I draw this cord, and tie 

One end thereof around the beam 
Midway 'twixt Cross and truss: 
I noose the nethermost extreme, 
And in ten seconds thus 
I journey hence-- 
To that land whence 
No rumour reaches us. 

Well: Here at morn they'll light on one 
Dangling in mockery 
Of what he spent his substance on 
Blindly and uselessly!... 
"He might," they'll say, 
"Have built, some way, 
A cheaper gallows-tree!"...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

Trout Fishing in America

...ho couldn't

because he was ruptured. There was no money for an operation.

There wasn't even enough money to buy him a truss.

So he stayed home and became a Kool-Aid wino.

 One morning in August I went over to his house. He was

still in bed. He looked up at me from underneath a tattered

revolution of old blankets. He had never slept under a sheet

in his life.

"Did you bring the nickel you promised?" he asked.

"Yeah, " I said. "It's here in my pocket. "

"Good. "

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

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