Wednesday, May 23, 2018

101 Poems, Number 54


Favorite Poems Throughout My Life


54: “Miniver Cheevy,” 1910 (in The Town down the River), by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

Was I assigned this back in school?—
Some homework I “forgot” to do?
(Does that sound plausible to you?)
I was an adolescent fool

Who wasted lots of priceless time—
There are some things that I would change—
If only I could rearrange
The past. Erase each boyhood “crime.”

But Cheevy? It’s the present he
Cannot abide. He’ll sit and think—
And spend a bit of time with … drink—
And weep for vanished history.


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