The last two lines are an homage, or a plagiarism, depending on how you
look at it. I look at is an homage. They're part of something Richard
Farina wrote to a friend of mine in autographing his copy of "Been Down
So Long It Looks Like Up to Me."
Frederick Pollack wrote:
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> Subject: Re: Sonnet: Poetry
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> Joe...excellent.
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> P is for the promises it never keeps,
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> O is for the ode, no longer hip,
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> E is for ekphrasis, in the Musee d’Oasis,
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> T says that it’s been a long strange trip,
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> R is for the readers that it doesn’t have,
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> Y? Because we don’t like you, you see,
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> Put them all together, they spell CHAOS
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> That’s a word that means The World to me.
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> At the next opportunity, I shall sing this after a few beers!!!
--
Tad Richards
http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
The moral is this: in American verse,
The better you are, the pay is worse.
--Corey Ford
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