Quotes and Poems: Day 92

Quote:

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poem:

We Eat Out Together

BY BERNADETTE MAYER

My heart is a fancy place

Where giant reddish-purple cauliflowers

& white ones in French & English are outside

Waiting to welcome you to a boat

Over the low black river for a big dinner

There's alot of choice among the foods

Even a tortured lamb served in pieces

En croute on a plate so hot as a rack

Of clouds blown over the cold filthy river

We are entitled to see anytime while we

Use the tablecovers to love each other

Publicly dishing out imitative luxuries

To show off poetry's extreme generosity

Then home in the heart of a big limousine