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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Usenet's Greatest Poet / gjd
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 11:42:27 +0000
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george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
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>>> >> 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

From the archives, so humor to change the pace.

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