Or it might have been Pynchon. The three of them were classmates at Cornell.
TheOldMole wrote:
> 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:
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "TheOldMole" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 5:46 AM
>> Subject: Re: Sonnet: Poetry
>>
>>
>> Joe...excellent.
>>
>> P is for the promises it never keeps,
>>
>> O is for the ode, no longer hip,
>>
>> E is for ekphrasis, in the Musee d’Oasis,
>>
>> T says that it’s been a long strange trip,
>>
>> R is for the readers that it doesn’t have,
>>
>> Y? Because we don’t like you, you see,
>>
>> Put them all together, they spell CHAOS
>>
>> That’s a word that means The World to me.
>>
>>
>>
>> At the next opportunity, I shall sing this after a few beers!!!
>
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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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