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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PRINTERS' BIBLE, by KEVIN MCFADDEN First Line: Who sits the type? Proof Subject(s): Typesetting | |||
An edition of 1702 in which David, in Psalm 19:161, complains that "printers have persecuted me without cause" (instead of "princes") Who sits the type? Proofs these profs? Chooses well-dead from well-read? Whoever they our their libel to liable. All the snooze that's prit to fint. Put to front. Pritty fun, pretty font, enough to fool the psalmist with. A palmist width? But whose got there goad if God's gott they're goat? Go get your Guttenbergs while the getting's food. Front page noose: laddies and gendermen, mean and omen of the press, N.B: not well! I half been persaquitted by punsters without gauze! The humors of Tobit's obit are gratingly exonerated (the wake Was fake). killed -- or was it willed? -I can't tell witch- by men I don't know form Madam. Why me, for trying out loud? For heaven's snake!? Copyright © Kevin McFadden | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...COMPOSED IN THE COMPOSING ROOM by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS FINE PRINT by ROBERT N. FEINSTEIN |
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