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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Usenet's Greatest Poet / gjd
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:14:41 +0000
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George J. Dance wrote:
> Will Dockery wrote:
>>>> george...@yahoo.ca 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 don't care who you are, that's funny.
>>
>> Yes, it still holds up after a month's reading. And, as you say, it
>>> doesn't matter whom it's about. So I think it's earned its place in the
>> revision.

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