DON'T LET THAT HORSE

Marc Chagall
Russian Painter
1887-1985

Don't let that horse

                                                 eat that violin

                                  cried Chagall's mother

but he kept right on 

                    painting

And became famous

And kept on painting

The Horse With Violin In Mouth

                                 And when he finally finished it

                                 he jumped up upon the horse

and rode away

waving the violin

And then with a low bow gave it 

to the first naked nude he ran across

                                 And there were no strings

attached.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

1919-

Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, New York, and educated at Columbia University and the Sorbonne.

He is identified with the Beat movement. He has said that much of his work was written by talking into a tape recorder and was designed to be read aloud.