poetry thursday

I discovered this poem standing in the poetry section of a wonderful used bookstore in Tacoma. I laughed out loud. It is from the book The Evening Sun: A Journal in Poetry, which is a collection of David Lehman's daily poems from 1999-2000. In the books, they appear as a poem a day for one year.

November 4

You know what
the greatest sound
in the world is?
It's the sound of
a cellophane
candy wrapper
in the row
behind you
during Elizabeth
Frank's "attention
must be paid"
speech in Death
of a Salesman
makes me love
my fellow man
a little more
each time

David Lehman

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Hope some of you take the poems you discover into the bathtub for a poetry reading today...