The Thing With Feathers
I often need a rainy day
To catch up on my depression,
A raven on my windowsill
And a book of lyric poetry
Open to the page
Where the center cannot hold;
Where the raineth drop
And the moppeth mop
Till that good night
Puts me gently on the road
To an April never so cruel
As the women I've loved;
Where fences make good firewood
And Ophelia wears a smile that says,
"Me, too."
(With apologies to Emily Dickenson,
Edgar Allen Poe, William Butler Yeats,
Ezra Pound, Dylan Thomas, Jack Kerouac,
T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and William Shakespeare.)
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