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Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)

I Feel (Verse Libre)


              1I feel
              2Very much
              3Like taking
              4Its unholy perpetrators
              5By the hair
              6Of their heads
              7(If they have any hair)
              8And dragging them around
              9A few times,
            10And then cutting them
            11Into small, irregular pieces
            12And burying them
            13In the depths of the blue sea.
            14They are without form
            15And void,/ Or at least
            16The stuff they/ produce
            17Is./ They are too lazy
            18To hunt up rhymes;
            19And that
            20Is all
            21That is the matter with them.

Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery, ed. John Ferns and Kevin McCabe (Markham: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1987): 152. PS 8525 O68A6 Robarts Library.
First publication date: 1942
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1998.
Recent editing: 2:2002/4/4

Rhyme: unrhyming

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