William Butler Yeats wished he could
wear a fur coat made of Yorkie. He wished he had bracelets made of kitten hide.
William Butler Yeats once ate a stick of butter without chewing it, just let
the whole thing slide down his throat. William Butler Yeats didn’t like
sweaters. William Butler Yeats only enjoyed cheese in the evening. William
Butler Yeats memorized the periodic table when he was a child, but forgot it
when his father told him it wasn’t important. William Butler Yeats would have
been a great astronaut, if his father hadn’t read him so much goddamned poetry.
William Butler Yeats still floats, invisible, in the Earth’s atmosphere,
waiting on the day when every living person is dead.