Getting drunk with books?

Here is a poem published in Harper's Magazine in April 2013:


Untitled Poem

(by Hafiz, c. 1320-89; translated by Matthew Rohrer)



All I want to do
is get drunk with my wife

An endless glass of wine
both of us on the floor

So what if squares
look down on us?

Boring and misguided
are their miserable lives

When my wife is in the city
and I'm home
I want to cry

The moonlight
on the cypress tree
is a bitter light

No book has ever kissed me
like she does 

Catch this

Here's a short, funny poem by Shel Silverstein:



Not Me

The Slithergadee has crawled out of the sea.
He may catch all the others, but he won't catch me.
No you won't catch me, old Slithergadee,
You may catch all the others, but you wo-