16 Jul: "Advice from the Experts" by Bill Knott

Advice from the Experts
I lay down in the empty street and parked
My feet against the gutter's curb while from
The building above a bunch of gawkers perched
Along its ledges urged me don't, don't jump.

1 comment:

  1. This is a strange poem.

    Why are the gawkers experts? Are the gawkers people or birds? Is the narrator laying in the street because he/she jumped already?

    The verb tense is in the past. I like thinking of the birds as personified telling the person not to jump because he doesn't have wings and now they are up there gawking like, "we told you!"

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