ORANGE MACBETH

GEORGE MACBETH

THE ORANGE POEM

Not very long ago

One morning

I sat in my orange room

With my orange pencil

Eating an orange.

This,

I began to write,

Is the orange poem.

I shall become known

As the orange poet

For inventing

And first writing

The original

Perfect

And now famous

ORANGE POEM

Which this is.

Having written which

In my orange room

With my orange pencil

I turned over a new leaf

Which this is.

Meanwhile,

Inside the orange poem

A small man

With an orange pencil

Sat in an orange room

Eating an orange.

This, he began to write,

Is the orange poem.

GEORGE MACBETH (1932-1992)

COLLECTED POEMS 1958-1982, Hutchinson, 1989