From the YouTube Poetry Archives II: The Surly One

September 8, 2007 by Quin Finnegan at 7:01 pm

When true love broke my heart in half,
I took the whiskey from the shelf,
And told my neighbors when to laugh.
I keep a dog, and bark myself.

Ghost cries out to ghost–
But who’s afraid of that?
I fear those shadows most
That start from my own feet.

~ Theodore Roethke