People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them up was a bite from a sheep.
James Joyce
People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them up was a bite from a sheep.
Man please thy maker and be merry set not for this world a cherry.
People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them up was a bite from a sheep.
People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them up was a bite from a sheep.
Retreat Before she can deliver the cruncher, I stride away backwards My car door opens, I fall in as the engine fires. I speed home in reverse, unshave, unshower, plop down in my easy chair where, picturing what a good night it’s going to be, I slowly spit up a manhattan – dry – just … Continue reading “Charles Harper Webb”
Retreat
Before she can deliver
the cruncher,
I stride away backwards
My car door opens,
I fall in
as the engine fires.
I speed home in reverse,
unshave, unshower,
plop down in my easy chair
where, picturing what a good
night it’s going to be,
I slowly spit up
a manhattan – dry –
just the way
I like it.
I Have No Gun, But I Can Spit Some thirty inches from my nose The frontier of my Person goes, And all the untilled air between Is private pagus or demesne. Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes I beckon you to fraternize, Beware of rudely crossing it: I have no gun, but I can spit.
I Have No Gun, But I Can Spit
Some thirty inches from my nose
The frontier of my Person goes,
And all the untilled air between
Is private pagus or demesne.
Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes
I beckon you to fraternize,
Beware of rudely crossing it:
I have no gun, but I can spit.
In the whole village The husband alone Does not know of it 18th Century Japanese poem
In the whole village
The husband alone
Does not know of it
18th Century Japanese poem
For hunger is a sauce, well blended and prepared, for any food.
For hunger is a sauce, well blended and prepared, for any food.
Peano Axioms of the Natural Numbers 1. 0 is a number. 2. The immediate successor of a number is also a number. 3. 0 is not the immediate successor of any number. 4. No two numbers have the same immediate successor. 5. Any property belonging to 0 and to the immediate successor of any number … Continue reading “Giuseppe Peano”
Peano Axioms of the Natural Numbers
1. 0 is a number.
2. The immediate successor of a number is also a number.
3. 0 is not the immediate successor of any number.
4. No two numbers have the same immediate successor.
5. Any property belonging to 0 and to the immediate successor of any number that also has that property belongs to all numbers.
The Sleepy Giant My age is three hundred and seventy-two, And I think, with the deepest regret, How I used to pick up and voraciously chew The dear little boys whom I met. I’ve eaten them raw, in their holiday suits; I’ve eaten them curried with rice; I’ve eaten them baked, in their jackets and … Continue reading “Charles E Carryl”
The Sleepy Giant
My age is three hundred and seventy-two,
And I think, with the deepest regret,
How I used to pick up and voraciously chew
The dear little boys whom I met.
I’ve eaten them raw, in their holiday suits;
I’ve eaten them curried with rice;
I’ve eaten them baked, in their jackets and boots,
And found them exceedingly nice.
But now that my jaws are too weak for such fare,
I think it exceedingly rude
To do such a thing, when I’m quite well aware
Little boys do not like being chewed.
And so I contentedly live upon eels,
And try to do nothing amiss,
And I pass all the time I can spare from my meals
In innocent slumber — like this.
Alone (in bad company).
Alone (in bad company).