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 ONE MAN'S POETRY Copyright 2002 by Adam Selzer. All rights reserved, ASCAP
Little Joey Sorbito bought a book of poems by Chris Marlowe Soon he was up to the collar of his clothes in nearly rhyming iambic prose and when they found poor Joe dead 'twas Marley did him in, they said things can go from bad to worse, a man can drown in good blank verse Chorus:One man's poetry one man's poetry one man's poetry is another man's poison! Please avoid with greatest care the works of Charles Baudelaire for that's a gateway poet, you know and he leads to Verlaine and Rimbaud Soon you'll be slicking back your hair and finding romantic symbols everywhere from a waterfall to a lover's breath you'll symbolize yourself to death CHORUS If you read Chaucer's works out loud you may fall in with an unseemly crowd Millers, reeves and professional wives assorted pilgrims and unsavory types Furst ye'll forgette howe twa spelle and then your grammar will be shot to hell they'll lead you off on a journey and then you'll never come back home again CHORUS Sonnets haunted Janie's dreams in a-b-a-b rhyming schemes she loved quatrains and couplets, too but only first edition books would do the addiction struck her to the bone and a body can't live on words alone to support her habit for printed antiques she wound up hooking on Elizabeth street CHORUS My dear friend Horace, what a waste! The man had such exquisite taste! Many hours he spent with me, discussing works of high quality and now I'll be forever cursed for I bought him a book of popular verse and I'm not sure which page he read, but it was just so awful that he fell quite dead CHORUS Do you dare to eat a peach? March 2002 Some additional verses: Johnny called his favorite hit man and said "can you take out Walter Whitman?" "Well, I would," the hitman said, "except that Whitman's already dead!" "In that case," young John replied, "it would be just as well if my teacher died. Do you think you could run Mr. Carter through before my Whitman paper's due?" CHORUS Let me relate a tale to thee -- of one Miss Dickenson, Emily editors - she would agitate! with her disinclination - to puncuate! But in the years since she's been dead - her verse has been most widely read leaving those who rejected the material to go home and cry in their cereal CHORUS BACK TO HOME PAGE Copyright 2003 by Adam Selzer, all rights reserved, ASCAP |
