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
The daring! The rhythms!
The searching! The knocking
down of old rusty fences!
The boy was drunk on words
before he drank at the canon.
A critic now says, *The poems*
*were all right for their time. *
As pink shoelaces were
for desert boots back then
and Pat Boone singing
*Friendly Persuasion.*
Many a sentence has
a first draft. I dip my pen
in his ink
every time I write.
- Andrew
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