27 September 2008

Grooks

Just picked this book up in a second-hand bookshop the other day. It's a series of gnomic short poems. I liked what I saw. I suspect I may be sharing a few here. Here's one I liked today.

Losing one glove
is certainly painful,
but nothing
compared to the pain
of losing one,
throwing away the other,
and finding
the first one again.

-Piet Hein

Amazon.co.uk: Grooks: Piet Hein: Books

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