unpublished excerpts
from The Book of Pets
by Eugene Ostashevsky
from The Book of Pets
by Eugene Ostashevsky
6. The Mosquito
Puncturing skin
and drawing blood in
makes your mind go ZIZZZ,
But—alas!—
that way you can catch
a severe disease.
14.
Octopus Earl
Hugged the drowning girl.
17.
Three elderly vultures
Purchased new dentures.
Empowered, they carry on
Tearing carrion.
18.
Quick! Maul the koala
Before it holler!
21. The Paper Box
There’s an ox
In my paper box.
L.
Little bunny rabbit
Met a raccoon, rabid.
Now there's no more bunny,
And you think it's funny.
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Eugene Ostashevsky is a Russian-born American poet from New York City. His books include the poetry collection Iterature and a volume of Russian 1930s writings in translation called OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism.
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