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Jan. 26th, 2008 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingersLots of folk appear to be putting a lot more of their own poetry in their blogs. This is probably a good thing: creativity being more important than happiness according to John_David_Garcia. Whether I agree or not I have yet to decide: however my life has been in the service of creativity, and whatever happiness I have been fortunate enough to stumble upon has only served to distract me from those things which I know I should be doing.
Anyway, a nasty bit of solipsistic spleen disguised as blank verse for those that can be bothered to read it....
An Apology for my Retreat from the World
No. I would be no small tyrant:
And the block would no doubt do
Good business
At my behest.
No. Nothing petty in my ambit
But my life:
And that's the good.
Else I would demand that Reason's Crown
Be forced upon your stupid heads,
Or offered you their loss instead:
I would be no small tyrant.
So thank your fortune otherwise
I am content in this small guise.
JB
25/01/2008
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Date: 2008-01-26 12:26 pm (UTC)my answer here is rhyming,
when i wrote verse it really stank,
so i gave it up.
but that doesn't mean you have to. if you have it in you and you are not a teenager then i think it is worth sharing, even if your reader in the case of me is a bit of a philistine. on a tv advert recently for a history programme about the spanish armada i gleaned a little gem, in that it seems the reason they attacked us and our virgin queen was because britain was seen as being full of 'pirates and infidels'. yay! pass me my infidel costume!
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Date: 2008-01-26 12:42 pm (UTC)my answer here is rhyming,
when i wrote verse it really stank,
so i gave it up.
[Strangled Laughter.]
Well, you seem to have my number.
strangled laughter...
Date: 2008-01-26 01:39 pm (UTC)it's more my number than yours, though! i would lovingly like to think that in a parallel universe i could have been a comedian, but i can't tell a joke to save my life, so i am glad of any laughter i might provoke, even if it is a bit strangly...
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Date: 2008-01-26 01:25 pm (UTC)