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Subject: Re: NastyGoon lifts a line
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 12:41:29 +0000
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On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 0:04:15 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:

> https://www.novabbs.com/arts/article.php?id=255731&group=alt.arts.poetry.comments
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 16:15:27 +0000, Michael Monkey Peabrain (MPP) aka
> "HarryLime" wrote:
>
>> I realized from the content of NancyGene's posts that they were
>> intelligent, well-educated, and better written than anyone here.
>> Naturally, I asked them to start contributing to the "Sampler."  And I
>> was right in doing so.
>>
>> Here are the opening lines of NancyGene's latest poem:
>>
>> "Yesterdays stack up like piles of read newspapers,
>> Cluttering my mind and obstructing my day."
>>
>> That's poetry of the highest quality.
>
> The opening line is very good. It's almost as good as the opening line
> of Robert Creeleys poem, "The Days Pile Up":
>
> "The days pile up like unread newspapers,"
>
> I do hope "Dr." NastyGoon credited Mr. Creeley; otherwise that would be
> something they would call, you know -- "plagiarism".

This also reminds me of a poem I wrote back around 1976, "Shattered,"
which starts with:

"The seconds have piled up on the floor,
Lost here in some other guy's past."

I posted this on the newsgroup a few years ago. JLA Forums does have a
search function so I might be able to locate it there.