November 19, 2006

I think I figured out my Thanksgiving long weekend reading. Ishmael Reed, New and Collected Poems: 1964-2006 (Carrol & Graf, 2006).

from "The Author Reflects on His 35th Birthday":

Let me laugh my head off
With Moby Dick as we reminisce
About them suckers who went
Down with the Pequod
35? I ain't been mean enough
Make me real real mean (159)