Poem in Your Pocket

Today is Poem in Your Pocket day, and I'll hold a copy of Langston Hughes Catch this year. If someone asks, I'll pull it out and read it aloud; otherwise, it'll sit there and sing itself.

CATCH

Big Boy came
Carrying a mermaid
On his shoulders
And the mermaid
Had her tail
Curved 
Beneath his arm


Being a fisher boy,
He'd found a fish
To carry --
Half fish,
Half girl
To marry.


Langston Hughes