This week's LitRock number on Issa's Sunday Service is the Beatles's I Am the Walrus, which takes the title character from Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter" poem from the Alice book Through The Looking Glass. There is also the reference to Poe and the infamous fadeout ending with a recitation of King Lear courtesy of a BBC broadcast that happened to be on sometime during the recording sessions . Lennon was hitting all the stops on this one. Here's the lyrics.
This week's featured poem on the count up from Lilliput Review #1 comes from issue #16, October 1990. Enjoy.
A Short Poem
A short poem
should reach
at least
the left hand of God.
Daniel McCaffrey
from this year on
in my left hand, umbrella-hat
in the right, knapsack
Issa
translated by David Lanoue
best,
Don
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