Poetry Saturdays: William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams was a 20th century American poet and physician. He sought to invent an entirely fresh-—-and singularly American–—poetic, written in unadorned language, whose subject matter was centered on the every day lives of common people.

Après le Bain

I gotta
buy me a new
girdle.
(I’ll buy
you one) O.K.
(I wish

you’d wig-
gle that way
for me,

I’d be
a happy man)
I GOTTA

wig-
gle for this.
(You pig)