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LOVE SONNETS OF A HOODLUM: PROLOGUE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wouldn't it jar you, wouldn't it make you sore
Last Line: You.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo


WOULDN'T it jar you, wouldn't it make you sore
To see the poet, when the goods play out,
Crawl off of poor old Pegasus and tout
His skate to two-step sonnets off galore?
Then, when the plug, a dead one, can no more
Shake rag-time than a biscuit, right about
The poem-butcher turns with gleeful shout
And sends a batch of sonnets to the store.

The sonnet is a very easy mark,
A James P. Dandy as a carry-all
For brain-fag wrecks who want to keep it dark
Just why their crop of thinks is running small.
On the low down, dear Mame, my looty loo,
That's why I've cooked this batch of rhymes for
you.




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