<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431927" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Larry Levis</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My poem would eat nothing. <br>I tried giving it water <br>but it said no, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">worrying me. <br>Day after day, <br>I held it up to the llight, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">turning it over, <br>but it only pressed its lips <br>more tightly together. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It grew sullen, like a toad <br>through with being teased. <br>I offered it money, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">my clothes, my car with a full tank. <br>But the poem stared at the floor. <br>Finally I cupped it in </div><div style="margin:10px 0">my hands, and carried it gently <br>out into the soft air, into the <br>evening traffic, wondering how </div><div style="margin:10px 0">to end things between us. <br>For now it had begun breathing, <br>putting on more and </div><div style="margin:10px 0">more hard rings of flesh. <br>And the poem demanded the food, <br>it drank up all the water, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">beat me and took my money, <br>tore the faded clothes <br>off my back, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">said Shit, <br>and walked slowly away, <br>slicking its hair down. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said it was going <br>over to your place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Larry+Levis">Larry Levis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431927" data-title="Larry Levis de Larry Levis" data-description="My poem would eat nothing. I tried giving it water but it said no, worrying me. Day after day, I held it up to the llight, turning it over, but it only pressed its lips more tightly together. It grew sullen, like a toad through with b..."></div> </div> </div>

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