[New-Poetry] Hamsteroid

[Anny Ballardini]

I thought the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th lines were about poets:

jumping onto a wheel
I spin in the air
around its axis welded
to two cage-walls



On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:00 PM, James Cervantes
<cervantes.james at gmail.com>wrote:

> What a great cartoon, among other things.  Are the first three lines
> about some poets?  Nah, belay that.  It's too much fun to be about
> poets.
>
> - Jim
>
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 6:52 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hamsteroid
> >
> > Hamsteroid that knows the rudiments
> > the alphabet of the marathon
> > gnawer of sterile kilometers
> > jumping onto a wheel
> > I spin in the air
> > around its axis welded
> > to two cage-walls
> > with four paws
> > wrinkled forehead
> > shiny eyes and snout
> > stretched toward the horizon
> > in this way I complete endless journeys
> > on the round vehicle
> > of my solitude
> > birdmouse flying inside bars
> > it finally alights with a thud
> > with my heavy body
> > I lie on the bottom of the cage
> > legs apart
> > small paw on chest
> > like Napoleon after Sedan
> > Sèvres Sestrière Senegal
> > and the hag tells me
> > eat the rye and turnip soup
> > don’t touch the coffeepot
> > it’s not your helmet
> > the galloping stops
> > everything stops
> > away goes the blonde
> > lady sutler of the destroyed regiment.
> > —Bartolo Cattafi, The Dry Air of Fire: selected poems, translated by Ruth
> > Feldman & Brian Swan,
> > (Translation Press, 1981)
> >
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