... Let's tell it
like it is: strong drink, a crimson tidemark
round the tub, a yard of lint, white towels...
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: dark humor, Simon Armitage, suicide, unsettling
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Free association
A.K. Ramanujam ageing childhood conversational culture dark humor death defiance E. E. Cummings Edna St. Vincent Millay family fantasy free verse gender history humorous poems identity imagery loneliness loss love poetry lyric poetry Margaret Atwood marriage melancholy mystic mythology nature Ogden Nash Pablo Neruda philosophy poems about poetry poignant politics religion repetend rhyme rhythm social commentary song lyrics sonnet Spanish suicide translation unsettling W. H. Auden war