Forever and a Day
No more than that
Dead cat shall I
Escape the corpse
I kept in shape
For the day off
Immortals take
Copyright Credit: Samuel Menashe, “Forever and a Day” from Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems, edited by Christopher Ricks, published by The Library of America, 2005. Copyright © 2004 by Samuel Menashe. Used by permission of the author.
Source: Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems (The Library of America, 2005)