Stevie Smith (nee Florence Margaret Smith) was an eccentric British writer, whose poems are sometimes rather strange, but often quite delightful. My favorite is The Galloping Cat:

Oh I am a cat that likes to
Gallop about doing good
So
One day when I was
Galloping about doing good, I saw
A figure in the path; I said
Get off! (Be-
cause
I am a cat that likes to
Gallop about doing good)
But he did not move, instead
He raised his hand as if
To land me a cuff
So I made to dodge so as to
Prevent him bringing it orf …

Read the rest here (and I have no doubt you will because I can’t imagine anyone reading the beginning of this poem and not wanting to know it).

If you would also like to hear the author recite her most famous poem, Not Waving But Drowning, click here.

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