The Defective Record - A poem by William Carlos Williams


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William Carlos Williams - The Defective Record

Cut the bank for the fill.
Dump sand
pumped out of the river
into the old swale

killing whatever was
there before—including
even the muskrats. Who did it?
There's the guy.

Him in the blue shirt and
turquoise skullcap.
Level it down
for him to build a house

on to build a
house on to build a house on
to build a house
on to build a house on to . . .

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Poet: William Carlos Williams Poem: The Defective Record Volume: The Complete Collected Poems 1906-1938 Year: Published/Written in 1938 Poem of the Day: Jul 3 2008 Comment 3 of 3, added on December 4th, 2005 at 7:38 PM. Greetings to all! Excuse for this message, but at you excellent design of a site! Very much it was pleasant to me, I shall come here very often! Bill from United States Comment 2 of 3, added on February 24th, 2006 at 1:00 PM. Beautiful site. Thanks! =) Bojana from Croatia Comment 1 of 3, added on January 4th, 2006 at 2:39 PM. I have no comment. it's a peom about a guy they plowed down some ground and built some apartments, nothing exciting about it. wade from United States More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, The Defective Record, has received 3 comments. Click here to read them, and perhaps post a comment of your own. Of course you can also always discuss poems by William Carlos Williams with others on the American Poems poetry forum!

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Poet: William Carlos Williams Poem: The Defective Record Volume: The Complete Collected Poems 1906-1938 Year: Published/Written in 1938 Last read: Jul 17 2008, 2:49AM Poem of the Day: Jul 3 2008 Viewed 2420 times. Added on January 4th, 2006 at 2:39 PM.

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