Tearfulness, petulance, self-pity,
draw undesirable attention to yourself,
you’ll end up like your poem on a shameful shelf
if you show these feelings in a ditty
Hopefulness, wrapped in a sunny smile,
helps you to blend with all the madding crowd,
poetic petulance must be disallowed,
for, like self-pity, it’s gone out of style.
© 2000 Gershon Hepner 5/7/00,8/28/08
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