a poem should never have the word 'poet' or 'poem' in them, as an
undeviating rule.
a poem about _the_ poet is even wronger.
you've definitely posted better poems onto this list Janet. I wasn't
really entertained by this at all, I'm afraid.
KS
On 13/02/07, Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Nearly Wednesday.
> This is not at all what I set out to write!
> And the ending in particular is crap.
> But the Muse has flown and I want to go to bed now. Goodnight!
>
> Janet
>
> ----------
>
> Famous
>
> When I was 17 a palm-reader told me,
> "you're going to be famous", but
> it hasn't happened. Yet
> I can hardly go anywhere without
> meeting some person who knows me
>
> and when I recite my poems at readings
> in a dramatic black outfit
> some people act
> like fans, waiting for a tidbit,
> a chapbook autographed, saying kind things.
>
> In a dream I visit the main residence
> of a man famous as any president
> (he is, indeed, a poet,
> but he is not famous for that)
> and his famous wife, sleek and gracious.
>
> She greets me politely. I tell her my name
> and am suddenly aware of the state
> of my clothes: the ragged t-shirt
> and stained jeans in which I'd slept
> under a tree, in the rain, earlier in the dream.
>
> I hope she forgets me, but people rarely do.
> But no-one will ever forget
> her. The poor woman can't
> just sleep out on the street
> in old clothes, the way poets do.
>
> A first draft by Janet Jackson
> Tue Feb 13 22:45:19 WST 2007
>
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> Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
> Poems at Proximity:
> http://www.proximity.webhop.net
>
> The choice is between nonviolence and nonexistence.
> Martin Luther King Jr.
> s
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