Poems & shirts
I use the shirts as vehicles for words, fragments of poetry that have caught my attention
Loving Mad Tom
From the hag and hungry goblin
That into rags would rend ye
the spirits that stand by the naked man
In the Book of Moons defend ye,
That of your five sound senses
You never be forsaken
Nor wander from yourselves, with Tom,
Abroad to beg your bacon
A long, anonymous 17th century ballad, based on the song of the beggars of Bedlam, full of ideas about language, about madness and destitution
John Donne
needs no introduction. His poetry is so full of memorable phrases – they are hard to resist and I don’t even try
Loving Mad Tom
From the hag and hungry goblin
That into rags would rend ye
the spirits that stand by the naked man
In the Book of Moons defend ye,
That of your five sound senses
You never be forsaken
Nor wander from yourselves, with Tom,
Abroad to beg your bacon
A long, anonymous 17th century ballad, based on the song of the beggars of Bedlam, full of ideas about language, about madness and destitution
John Donne
needs no introduction. His poetry is so full of memorable phrases – they are hard to resist and I don’t even try
