Doing a poetry reading, recommend a poem.?

hi dave.
here favourite one:
vladimir mayakovsy outstanding russian futurist, love of life have married man, written in 1916. russian band splint played couple of years ago search net , let them listen song along read.

lilichka!

tobacco smoke eats air away.
room,--
chapter kruchenykh’s inferno
recall,--
window
day
caressed ecstatically, fervor
here sit now,
heart in iron armor.
in day,
you’ll scold me perhaps
, tell me leave.
frenzied, trembling arm in gloomy parlor
hardly able fit sleeve.
i’ll rush out
, hurl body street,--
distraught,
lashed despair , sadness
there’s no need this,
darling,
sweet.
let’s part tonight , end madness,
either way,
love
arduous weight,
hanging on
wherever flee.
let me bellow out in final complaint
of heartbroken misery.
laboring bull, if had enough,
leave
, find cool water lie in
me
there’s no sea
except love,--
tears won’t earn me quiet.
if elephant wants relax, he’ll lie,
pompous, outside in sun-baked dune,
except love,
there’s no sun
in sky
, don’t know of whom.
if tormented poet,

trade in love money , fame

nothing sounds precious me ringing sound of darling name.
won’t drink poison,
or jump demise,
or pull trigger take own life.
except eyes,
no blade can control me,
no sharpened knife.
tomorrow you’ll forget
crowned you,
burned out blossoming soul love
, days form whirling carnival
ruffle manuscripts , lift them above..
dry autumn leaves of sentences
cause pause,
breathing hard?
let me
pave path final tenderness
footsteps depart.

if not dirrerent, is?

doing poetry reading group of people,

want different, thinking of ted hughes' poetry, or maybe t.s. elliot.

recommend obscure poem appeal all? nothing offensive please. thanks.

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