The Eagle
By Maya “Bubba” Angelou
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring’d with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he farts.
(thank you. thank you very much)
I saw a Maya Angelou poem written on a truckstop bathroom wall once.
It began,
“Here I sit, brokenhearted....”