TFR Home Page TFR Home PageContents ContentsPrev. Page Prev. PageNext Page Next PageComments Comments
              I Want A Poem
              By Willie James King

              Prussian blue is pretty
              but I don't want to read
              about it in another poem;
              I am fed-up with fuchsia
              too, as well as aquamarine,
              anything thought
              exotic, pristine.
              Give me a drinking gourd
              mottled from too many
              mouths, 'possum turds
              packed with persimmon
              seeds upon a path;
              or, buzzards circling
              above a fetid carcass
              they are eager to glean
              from the earth's ephemeral
              hold. I want things that are useful,
              dutiful, even sweetened by death;
              a young capon fattened for company
              whose name I don't have to know.
              I want the kind of poem
              that takes me someplace,
              a place I never knew
              I needed to go.


TFR Home Page | Submission Guidelines | Frequently Asked Questions | Sign Our Guest Book | Contents | Donations
Workshops | Event Calendar | TFR Background | How to Contact Us | Editors and Authors Only | Privacy Statement


© Copyright 1997, 2023, The Fairfield Review Inc., All Rights Reserved.
Document last modified on: 04/02/2006

<script>
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
})(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

ga('create', 'UA-22493141-2', 'auto');
ga('send', 'pageview');

</script>