… Something like: The bird-of-paradise that’s flying up your ass is also flying up mine?
You know how, now and then, you simply need a particular poem in order to carry on?
“Marvin” something? I’ve tried to track down the poem without success. Was it in Hayden Carruth’s anthology The Voice That Is Great Within Us?
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I did find this one but not the one you want I think: https://genius.com/Ernest-tubb-may-the-bird-of-paradise-fly-up-your-nose-lyrics Now you’ve got me looking Jim!
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Thank you for enlisting, Sue! This link you’ve found is quite useful, in that it alerts me that the concept of the bird-of-paradise flying up an orifice may not have originated with my mystery poet. I remember finding it arresting and inexplicable when I was first encountering modern poetry. I must find out what Ernest Tubb (a familiar name to me) is up to with it! 🙂
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I recall the name of a book I read many many moons ago: The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise, by Scottish trickcyclist R D Laing. Maybe another of his works, ‘Knots’, might be regarded as a poem, … though ?
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