Brie And Chablis Crowd Poem by Ted Sheridan
Brie And Chablis Crowd
With an I.Q. that is barely high enough
to reach the 800 numbers
of the Dewey Decimal System;
“Literature and Rhetoric”,
I do my best to keep up with others
in this place, this institution. Those few prolifically
creative individuals, who verbosely
refer to themselves in the third person
and categorize others as 040’s or “Unassigned”.
Elitist poets and know it alls,
whose resume look like some internet list
of Who is Who, compiled by the
International Society of Poetry’s board
in one of their anthologies. If not
for them, I would give up my writing; because
if not for them I would have nothing to compare it to…
2008 © T Sheridan
Ted, I just love this. What it comes over as is a grumpy old man gripe and yet it is such a beautifully crafted piece of poetry. For me this is something many modern European and English poets cannot do (there is a distinction!) and I'm sure there is some geosociopsychological reason for it. But hey! who cares once it get done to this standard.
In some ways I find this to be funny. I think it's well written, Ted. I also must say that I am thrilled and very proud that the work I've been submitting to magazines is being so warmly received and PUBLISHED! ! ! I absolutely believe that there is a market for your work. I absolutely believe that YOU should be sending work out at the same manic pace that I, and others have been. I think you'd be pleasantly surprised at the response...and you would even begin to see that hanging out here with 'poets' whose writing absolutely pales in comparison to you, Jefferson, Denis, Wendy, John Kay, Eric Paul Shaffer, and mine, is a huge waste of time and exquisitely counter-productive.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/24/2024 4:34:21 AM # 1.0.0.1119
'Tara McHale says, titter titter titter'! :) t xx