songanddancegirl

"It's about words, and words are all I have…"

DON’T TELL ME

DON’T  TELL  ME  WHAT  THE  POETS    ARE  SAYING

John Ashbery says:  There are no rewards in this world for

pissing your life away even if it means you get to see forgotten

icebergs      He has won the Pulitzer   studied at Harvard & Columbia

 

That is a bit like The Hip crooning:  No one’s interested in something

you didn’t do      And since such sentiments make mere mortals feel like

has beens   you would all be better off gazing at the moon   or contemplating

the Aztecs   who prophesy  that the world will end   unbelievably    soon

 

So   Come  Poet    Shut  Up

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* inspired by   John Ashbery    The Tragically Hip    Allen Ginsberg

Fall  2012

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