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Subject: Re: Usenet's Greatest Poet / gjd
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 05:00:24 +0000
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Will Dockery wrote:

> George J. Dance wrote:
>
>>
>>>> Guess Who?
>>>>
>>>> I'm usenet's greatest poet,
>>>> At least that's what they say.
>>>> The Village People love my work
>>>> And I'm not even gay.
>>>>
>>>> The most prolific poet
>>>> The internet has known,
>>>> I've written fifty thousand poems
>>>> In the past week alone.
>>>>
>>>> I sit at my computer
>>>> And dream of South and North,
>>>> And just like vomit from a drunk
>>>> The poems come gushing forth.
>>>>
>>>> It's sometimes hard to type them,
>>>> They all come out so fast,
>>>> And some of them are really long
>>>> While some are just half-vast.
>>>>
>>>> I've never learned poetics;
>>>> I know that I don't need 'em
>>>> Because I simply write the poems;
>>>> Let other people read 'em.
>>>>
>>>> Oh once Bob Dylan phoned me
>>>> But didn't praise my work
>>>> So I hung up on him. He's just
>>>> A pissbum and a jerk.
>>>>
>>>> I know he's simply jealous,
>>>> Like all those guys, of me.
>>>> That's why they bury all my stuff;
>>>> It's a conspiracy.
>>>>
>>>> I know I could be published
>>>> And everyone would buy,
>>>> But knowing the conspiracy
>>>> Why would I even try?
>>>>
>>>> So I just stay on usenet
>>>> Where true success depends,
>>>> Not on your money, or your fame,
>>>> But on your online friends.
>>>>
>>>> I'm friends with half a dozen
>>>> True poets just like me.
>>>> (Sometimes we write, sometimes we fight
>>>> With the conspiracy.)
>>>>
>>>> They say my poems are perfect,
>>>> And all I have to do
>>>> Is thank all six, and tell them all
>>>> Their poems are perfect, too.
>>>>
>>>> ~~
>>>> GJD
>>>
>>> I think it works as fun rather
>> than coming across as malice because no names are mentioned. Nobody
>> hurts, nobody cries.
>
> It sure seems fun, as so many here seem to want a piece of the action.
>
> ;)

Indeed