Oops! Legislator, but I expect youll get the gist.
SS
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> Sorry. Shelley is the only legistlator for me. I dont recognise the lawman,
> Slyman, nor does Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarme to name a few old long dead
> Frenchmen, about a law long dead . . . .
>
> Long live prose, long live poetry, long live the prose poem.
>
> Simon Smith
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> >
> > (Did not intend to spoof. What nudge might come forth from my direction
> > would be one of a parting nudge. As my own isolation from any movement
> > prohibits participation. My literary life it would appear has closed, as I
> > enter middle age discovering what methodologies fall to me. Principally a
> > talent for light verse.)
> >
> > However, one spoof which might serve as nudge would fall along the lines a
> > decree a divorce for prose and poetry. As couple they haven’t been getting
> > along. They quarrel. Throw things. Their spats are well known and disturb
> > the neighbors. I hereby offer my services as magistrate to grant decree for
> > divorce.
> >
> > I do this with the knowledge the participants our at their end. I hereby
> > legally terminate the marriage. Those who protest may do by filling writs.
> > Their disappointment shall be noted. I find no longer viable the holy bond
> > between prose and poetry and declare the two divisible.
> >
> > Though prose and poetry are free to remarry, I would wish they allow for
> > sufficient time to recover from their strife. The legal doctrines governing
> > divorce and dominated by concepts of canon law apply.
> >
> > I grant a decree of divorce on the basis of incapability. Albeit there has
> > risen examples of adultery and abandonment. I make invalid their marriage. I
> > dissolve all ties between prose and poetry by powers invested in me by the
> > Roman Catholic church.
> >
> > The separated state shall commence on this day, February 20th, 1998. I grant
> > absolute divorce. The marriage-dissolution granted to both parties. As the
> > two were both innocent and injured. However, in the face of considerable
> > evidence, Poetry shall be able to obtain relief (that is, monies) from Prose
> > who has done some wrong—the recognized grounds for payment may be attributed
> > to willful misconduct, adultery, nefarious bad language, desertion; habitual
> > drunkenness; conviction of a felony and impotence.
> >
> > The offenses amounting to cruel and inhuman treatment.
> >
> > Their brief marriage has caused much concern. The conflict of irreconcilable
> > differences. All attempts have failed as renew vows between prose and
> > poetry. The actual viability of the marriage had not a chance in Hell. They
> > got on each others’ nerves.
> >
> > Moreover, their love affair was mere infatuation, and as poetry is without
> > fault. A good kisser and well-mannered and perfect in every way, she could
> > not be expected to sustain her vows with the glump, which was prose. He was
> > a dog. A man of devious intent. Prose was a drunken sot.
> >
> > Poetry was angelic. Perfect. Musically inclined. Intelligent, beautiful, not
> > given to vulgarity. Well-bred, most proper, not all jaunty. Poetry was
> > cherry cheeked.
> >
> > I declare the two separate and apart. Prose’s gruffness and poetry genteel
> > nature proved glaring and at odds. Incompatibility for this doomed
> > marriage. The two bickering in public places. Throwing fits. Harsh words
> > between the two have passed.
> > Not since their honeymoon have they felt the wild passion. Indeed, after the
> > first month they stopped holding hands. Whispers soon turned into shouts.
> > Harsh murmurs. The endless misunderstandings, spats. Strident and clumsy the
> > collapse of love’s union.
> >
> > (The incompetent matchmaker who put the two together has been reprimanded.
> > How preposterous he should think that poetry would endure the oaf. Sloppy
> > dresser, vagrant, bigamist, loud mouth, braggart, cigar smoker.)
> >
> > And with solemn and sincere apologies do hereby grant prose and poetry
> > divorce.
> >
> > Signed,
> > The Literary Magistrate
> >
> > Ernest Slyman
> > HomePage
> > www.geocities.com/soho/7514
> > email: [log in to unmask]
> >
> >
> >
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