Thursday, April 10, 2008

A one-line poem, for those too rushed for verse

Elegy

Who would I show it to?



---W.S. Merwin

2 comments:

Flavia said...

Ahem. Am I the only person whose immediate interpretation of this poem is dirty?

Renaissance Girl said...

LOL!

Well, looks like I'll never again be able to read this one as an expression of the futility of language in the face of human loss.