The Thursday Poem

Young Woman Reading by a Window by Delphin Enjolras

Don't let that Horse

Don't let that horse

eat that violin

cried Chagall's mother

But he

kept right on

painting

And became famous

And kept on painting

The Horse With Violin In Mouth

And when he finally finished it

he jumped up upon the horse

and rode away

waving the violin

And then with a low bow gave it

to the first naked nude he ran across

And there were no strings

attached

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

(24th March 1919 - )

from the book: Poem for the Day One