Friday, April 18, 2014

April - National Poetry Month

M, I just had to share this gem by Richard Brautigan (you may remember him from Willard and His Bowling Trophies).

The Symbol
Richard Brautigan

When I was hitch-hiking down to Big Sur,
Moby Dick stopped and picked me up. He was driving
a truckload of sea gulls to San Luis Obispo.
"Do you like being a truckdriver better than you
do a whale?" I asked.
"Yeah," Moby Dick said. "Hoffa is a lot better
to us whales than Captain Ahab ever was.
The old fart."

2 comments:

PWM said...

That is fantastic! Which reminds me, I didn't get your poetry emails during April. Did I not get on the list?

HollenBackGirl said...

Long story short - email system migration at work meant I lost my distribution list. I posted to FB but you probably just missed it. Let me know which email address you would like and I'll add you to my new dist. list for next year.