Panel poster; Poems on the Underground, The Sloth, by Theodore Roethke, 2015

• Physical description

  Dimensions

  Attribute	Value
  Height	280mm
  Width	610mm
  Descriptive size	Panel poster

  Item content

  Attribute	Value
  Object title	The Sloth
  Text	The Sloth / Theodore Roethke / Reprinted by permission of Doubleday / (Collected Poems 1966) and The Estate / of Theordore Roethke / Darwing by Clarissa Upchurch / In moving-slow he has no peer. / You ask him something in his Ear, / He thinks about it for a year; / And, then, before he says a Word / There, upside down (unlike a Bird), / He will assume that you have Heard - / A most Ex-as-per-at-ing Lug. / But should you call his manner Smug, / He'll sigh and give his Branch a Hug; / The off again to Sleep he goes, / Still swaying gently by his Toes, / And you just know he knows he knows. / Poems on the Underground / tfl.gov.uk/poems / MAYOR OF LONDON / Supported by ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND / BRITISH COUNCIL / THEPOETRYSOCIETY / UNDERGROUND / TRANSPORT FOR LONDON / EVERY JOURNEY MATTERS

• People involved

  Role	Person(s) involved
  Commissioner	Poems on the Underground, 2015
  Poet	Theodore Roethke,
  Publisher	TfL, 2015