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
Nous like scouse or French -oui? We wee whee all the way ... to mind us a bunch of thunks. Too much information? How could that be?
27 September 2008
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