Today’s Poem: Disobedience

A.A. Milne is far more clever than you remember

Lesser Ury’s Victoria Embankment, London, 1926 (Wikimedia Commons)

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) needs no introduction. If anything, he needs a disintroduction. His Winnie the Pooh books are so well known that they intrude in our vision, like rainbow glasses that make everything by the man seem giddy, gooey, and sappy. The truth is that Milne was very good at c…