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
