Friday, January 23, 2015

A PRESERVED MOMENT OF LITERARY HISTORY



In Venice, a zoo
In the zoo, an elephant
In front of the elephant,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Next to her, her husband
Who, every morning,
Hands her a pomegranate
To feed the elephant.

Robert Browning
Thinks pomegranates
Make elephants drunk.

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