Why We All Love Poetry

Gerrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac" selection for today is a poem by X.J. Kennedy, from "Peeping Tom's Cabin: Comic Verse 1928-2008":

Ars Poetica

The goose that laid the golden egg
Died looking up its crotch
To find out how its sphincter worked.
Would you lay well? Don't watch.

Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

P.S. Speaking of poetesques, today is Robert Zimmermann's birthday. Happy birthday, Bob.