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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MORGUE: 1. LITTLE ASTER, by GOTTFRIED BENN Poem Explanation First Line: A drowned truck-driver was propped on the slab Last Line: Little aster! Subject(s): Asters; Autopsies; Expressionism - Poets; Flowers; Morgues | |||
A drowned truck-driver was propped on the slab. Someone had stuck a lavender aster between his teeth. As I cut out the tongue and the palate, through the chest under the skin, with my long knife, I must have touched the flower, for it slid into the brain lying next. I packed it into the cavity of the chest among the excelsior as it was sewn up. Drink yourself full in your vase! Rest softly, little aster! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MORGUE: 2. LOVELY CHILDHOOD by GOTTFRIED BENN BUILDING 520, BELLEVUE by JAMES LAUGHLIN MAN AND WOMAN GO THROUGH THE CANCER WARD by GOTTFRIED BENN MORGUE: 2. LOVELY CHILDHOOD by GOTTFRIED BENN MISSING THE BO IN THE HENHOUSE by HAYDEN CARRUTH IN GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS; ON HEARING A SKYLARK SING by GEORGE SANTAYANA VLAMERTINGHE: PASSING THE CHATEAU, JULY 1917 by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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