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From: mr.mincemeat@syteka.UUCP (mr.mincemeat)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: rude awakening
Message-ID: <408@syteka.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Dec-83 17:26:15 EST
Article-I.D.: syteka.408
Posted: Fri Dec  2 17:26:15 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Dec-83 03:11:31 EST
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Mincemeat fearless dancer on the sun
Rager against the night mighty and unbowed
Reveals his true colors in an instant
Slithers among bad smells and rot
A ratty plagiarist
Scuttling between the pages of someone else's books
I paid a dollar for this harsh truth
Cheap at half the price
The used book store has loosed a monster
And here it snarls in bleak and white
Ferlinghetti says it ridiculously long ago:
   I'm sometimes known as the creator
   of the immortal line
   "when I was a boy I was my father."
Aw jeesuz what a rip
One of my better poems
My keener thrusts
Immaculate personal visions
Isn't mine at all, is the prior fact
Of this balding bearded beatnick
This redundant aging rhymer
I already owe you too much larry
I stand solid on your bones
But I wish this one I'd done alone.





			mr.mincemeat

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