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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE POETASTER ACCEPTS HIS VOCATION, by EDMUND KELLY JANES
First Line: If I must turn my insides all clean out
Last Line: What moron worries whether words have meaning?
Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form)
First Line: If I must turn my insides all clean out
Last Line: What moron worries whether words have meaning?
Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form)
If I must turn my insides all clean out
And give to everybody born in sin
A look at what is going on within
This cave of ignorance, this den of doubt,
If it's a poet's duty thus to flout
His feelings so that other folk may grin
At everything he will be or has been,
I will not be a poet. How about
Some clever faking of the poet's craft?
Am I the only human who is daft?
If I write words enough I shall have readers
Among the followers if not the leaders.
I can sling gaudy words till earth's done weaning:
What moron worries whether words have meaning?
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