from the category:Is This Really A Poem?

Majolica Lament, or "Australopithecus"

The farmer in the dell
The farmer in the dell
Ox chip gastrology
The farmer in the dell

The farmer takes a wife
The farmer takes a wife
Pupa reconnaisance
The farmer takes a wife

The wife takes a child
The wife takes a child
Sweetbread electrolyte
The wife takes a child

The child takes a nurse
The child takes a nurse
Cheese futz habitual
The child takes a nurse

The nurse takes a cow
The nurse takes a cow
Flatworm cotalleral
The nurse takes a cow

by Linda Kunhardt

from the May 2010 issue of Poetry
(but I must admit that the
issue redeems itself with a
funny review of Tony Hoagland's
Unincorporated Persons in the
Late Honda Dynasty)