Little Poem with Argyle socks by James Tate

Posted by Jai Narayan on October 3, 2004, at 17:43:58

Behind every great man
there sits a rat.
And behind every great rat,
there's a flea.
Beside the flea there is an encyclopedia.
Every now and then the flea sneezes, looks up,
and flies into action, reorganizing history.
The rat says, "God, I hate irony."
To which the great man replies,
"Now now now, darling, drink your tea."
I just attended a reading by this humble, understated, and funny man. I laughed till I cried. My god the humor of this man!
It reminds me of my mother and father guffawing about James Thurber.

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Little Poem with Argyle socks by James Tate Jai Narayan 10/3/04
Re: Little Poem with Argyle socks by James Tate » Jai Narayan Atticus 10/3/04
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Alice in Wonderland was my childhood bible :) (nm) Jai Narayan 10/5/04
Re: Alice in Wonderland was my childhood bible :) » Jai Narayan Gabbix2 12/2/04
Oh my, I hadn't even read atticus's post Gabbix2 12/2/04

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