Hello Friends,
It’s one of my favorite days of the year — Poem in Your Pocket Day! Today is the perfect day to stand on a street corner and pass out poems to passers-by. They will mostly think you’re trying to sell them something at first, but you’ll find many are quite delighted to realize you’re giving them a poem. I’ve made a PDF of some pocket-sized poems for you to download and print, so you too can pass out poems to your friends, neighbors, co-workers, or on your nearest street corner.
Also, for the first-time ever on Poem in Your Pocket Day: I have something special for you this year, which is a poem actually about a pocket!
Enjoy.
Ellen
if I had two nickels to rub together
I would rub them together
like a kid rubs sticks together
until friction made combustion
and they burned
a hole in my pocket
into which I would put my hand
and then my arm
and eventually my whole self—
I would fold myself
into the hole in my pocket and disappear
into the pocket of myself, or at least my pants
but before I did
like some ancient star
I’d grab your hand
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— Kevin Varrone