Sunday, June 18, 2006

I stole this poem from Alex's blog. There's a site called Holy Tango of Literature which has poems that are based on anagrams of the poet's name. (Holy Tango=Anthology, get it?) The poems, as you might assume, are quite bizarre, but some of them are funny.

For example, the Red Wheelbarrow poet we read senior year of high school:

I WILL ALARM ISLAMIC OWLS
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS


I will be alarming
the Islamic owls
that are in
the barn

and which
you warned me
are very jittery
and susceptible to loud noises

Forgive me
they see so well in the dark
so feathery
and so dedicated to Allah

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