Howl, rewritten for MetaFilter
# funny, ginsberg, metafilter, poetry
april hates u, makes lilacs, u no can has. april in ur memoriez, making ur desire. spring rain in ur dull rootzes.–yep, it’s The Waste Land translated into LOLCATS pidgin.
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Horses eat a lot
prances in the lovely field
They are beautiful.
–haiku by a pupil of Bloomfield Elementary School
Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse Audio CD– Here are excerpts from two of the six Norton Lectures that Jorge Luis Borges delivered at Harvard University in the fall of 1967 and spring of 1968.
# borges, lectures, literature, poetry
Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour.–Chaucer, Canterbury Tales.
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land,
Mixing Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.–Eliot, The Waste Land.