Andre de Ink,
I like the blend of parodic and more serious here. And thanks for Pat Boone - tan shoes and pink shoelaces (and a resonance of a white sports coat and a pink carnation a la Marty Robbins) - the poetry of that. I'm not joshing you.
Cheers,
J
On 16/09/2015, at 9:32 AM, Andrew Burke wrote:
> I’m not joshing you,
>
> I like the kid’s first book.
>
> Sure it has *young *written
>
> all over it, and there are
>
> huge failures there, but
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> The daring! The rhythms!
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> The searching! The knocking
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> down of old rusty fences!
>
> The boy was drunk on words
>
> before he drank at the canon.
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> A critic now says, *The poems*
>
> *were all right for their time. *
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> As pink shoelaces were
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> for desert boots back then
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> and Pat Boone singing
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> *Friendly Persuasion.*
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> Many a sentence has
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> a first draft. I dip my pen
>
> in his ink
> every time I write.
>
> - Andrew
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