Poetry
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Poems or songs with references to poetry.
- Announcement A - Flansburgh recites "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" by Donovan Leitch
- The Bright Side - Lines from "The Great Figure" by William Carlos Williams are recited as a verse
- The End Of The Tour - Contains a reference to the "This Is the Church" nursery rhyme
- Hate The Villanelle
- I Should Be Allowed To Think - Opening line is lifted from "Howl" by Alan Ginsberg
- Kids Are Different Now (Spoken Word Version)
- Lazy - "To keep me company when I'm tired of poetry"; mentions poets Dickens and Omar Khayyam
- Pencil Rain - The phrase "finale of seem" is from the poem "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" by twentieth-century American poet Wallace Stevens.
- Podcast 37A - For the Halloween podcast, Timothy "Speed" Levitch recites a poem called "Gravedigger".
- Rhythm Section Want Ad - "There's a place for those who love their poetry"
- Robert Lowell - Most of the lyrics are taken from "Memories of West Street and Lepke" by Robert Lowell
- Tennessee - John Linnell's reading of "Anecdote of the Jar" by Wallace Stevens
- Trucker's Coffee
- You Are Old, Father William - Musical remake of the poem of the same name from Alice In Wonderland
