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Reportedly, LeRoi Jones wrote to James Wright with a question in jest (a jestion) regarding the last lines of Wright’s poem “From a Bus Window in Central Ohio, Just Before a Thunder Shower” (the last lines being: “And calls a hundred black-and-white Holsteins/ From the clover field.”):
“How did you know there were a hundred Holsteins?” he asked.
On a post-card, Wright jotted his response and mailed it off:
“I counted the tits and divided by four.”
November 17th, 2008 at 4:56 am
I guess it was an old joke then. Funny.