Dickinson had a cockatoo
she called Semiramis
and loved dearly.
Whitman was a trencherman.
his favorite dish
a mulligan stew.
Frost went for long walks,
Eliot played croquet,
Pound took fencing lessons.
There is a snapshot of Yeats
in a garden with a woman
naked to the waist and smiling.
Auden when he was old
counted the sheet of toilet paper
that a visitor used.
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