One leaves his leaves at home 
beomg a mullen and sends up a lighthouse 
to peer from: I will have my way, 
yellow-A mast with a lantern, ten 
fifty, a hundred, smaller and smaller 
as they grow more-Liar, liar, liar! 
You come from her! I can smell djer-kiss 
on your clothes. Ha! you come to me, 
you, I am a point of dew on a grass-stem. 
Why are you sending heat down on me 
from your lantern?-You are cowdung, a 
dead stick with the bark off. She is 
squirting on us both. She has has her 
hand on you!-well?-She has defiled 
ME.-Your leaves are dull, thick 
and hairy.-Every hair on my body will 
hold you off from me. You are a 
dungcake, birdlime on a fencerail.- 
I love you, straight, yellow 
finger of God pointing to-her! 
Liar, broken weed, dungcake, you have- 
I am a cricket waving his antennae 
and you are high, grey and straight. Ha!
Great Mullen
written byWilliam Carlos Williams
© William Carlos Williams





