I Feel (Verse Libre)

Montgomery, Lucy Maud (1874 - 1942)

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.

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.

Publication Start Year

1942

RPO poem Editors

Ian Lancashire

RPO Edition

RPO 1998.

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