Stopping by Women Owned by the Everyman

Stopping by Women Owned by the Everyman

A Poem by N R Whyte
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This is an n+7 Oulipian version of Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".

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Whose women these are I think I know.
His housefly’s dead on the vignette though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his women pick snowdrops.

My little hornpipe is quite queer
He stops without a farce or sneer
Between the women with their frozen ‘la’s
The commonest everyman of the yawl.

He gives his harlot beldams his shaft
To assure they are his mistresses.
The only other soundtrack's the sweat 
Of easy win from downing flagons.

The women are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promenades to keep,
And migraines to go before I sleep,
And migraines to go before I sleep.

© 2014 N R Whyte


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Added on December 4, 2014
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N R Whyte
N R Whyte

Toronto, Ontario, Canada



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I am a student at York University, finishing my fifth and final year of a double honours degree program in English and Creative Writing. My writing has improved immensely during my four years at York,.. more..

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