WINTER 2007

 


Winter 2006-7



Eight Poems by Sparrow

EARTH

The Earth
is
bald.

 

AN EXPLANATION OF RAIN

Rain is water
downloaded from
a cloud.

 

FAVORITE MONKEY

My favorite
monkey wears
a fez.

OLD SOLITUDES

I study
the Old
Solitudes.

 

HAIR RETURN

I predict
the Return
of Hair.

 

A SAD FACT

Shakespeare
despised
Africa.



PREDICTION

A singer-songwriter
will be elected
President in 2036.

 

QUESTION

Are there anthropologists
who study other
anthropologists?


Sparrow is a rural gossip columnist in Phoenicia, New York. America: A Prophecy -- The Sparrow Reader (www.softskull.com) is his recent book.

 

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