Hard to say, but since Sookie is my muse, I guess he might be.
Patrick McManus wrote:
> Is that \Sergie you Tad ? P
>
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> Subject: Snap with Sookie
>
> SEEN BY THE POET
>
> Seen by the poet, the young housewife
> is an object of amorous curiosity.
>
> She is Innocent Peggy,
> and he, Sergei, the Corruptor.
>
> He maneuvers her to Price Chopper,
> she buys cheese and baguettes,
>
> takes them to the creek bank.
> She loosens her top button.
>
> A flock of wild swans rises,
> wings beating clamorous
>
> as a million pages turning.
> He has lost sight of her -
>
> now only, on the far bank, Sookie,
> astride a great swan, laughing.
>
>
--
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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