on 27/6/02 12:54 pm, Sue Scalf at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> If I were Jesse James,
> I would waylay ever poet
> who assumes the name
> of some speaker unknown
> but to an inner few.
> I would turn his pockets
> inside out and his innards, too.
> Then I'd toss him under the train
> I've already robbed, doing good
> of course for the poor and untrained.
> Oh what a world this would be
> if only I were Jesse James.
>
> Sue Scalf
And if I were James Joyce
I would laugh and sing in words
I had made up or heard in Dublin city
beside the Liffey
and laugh some more
and if I were Henry James
I would be a little longwinded
in the interests of literature
or that section of it known as
posterity
and if I were
but I'm not
the world
of words
belongs
to us all
Sally Evans
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