Après Le Bain
free verse
playful
I gotta buy me a new girdle. (I'll buy you one) O.K. (I wish you'd wig- gle that way for me, I'd be a happy man) I GOTTA wig- gle for this. (You pig)
Après Le Bain - fact Summary
Included in Pictures from Brueghel
This brief, conversational poem is printed in William Carlos Williams’s collection Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems. It records a fragmentary, teasing exchange between speakers in spare lines and parenthetical asides. The speaker shifts between direct address and interior comment, producing a compact, dialogic snapshot that relies on colloquial phrasing and abrupt line breaks to convey tone and movement.
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