Self-Mocking Poet Poem by Ananta Madhavan

Self-Mocking Poet



1.
A clerk snips teleprinter tape
And sticks it in a verse-like shape.

2.
Clerk to critic:
'If you can burn Shakespeare into dust and ashes,
I can turn Shakespeare into dots and dashes.'

3.
Said the clerk to the chimp,
'You nasty little imp,
Is it true you can type on a typewriter? '

Said the chimp to the clerk,
I resent that remark,
Don't you know I'm the world's best tripe-writer? '

Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: poems
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
I wanted to write genuine poems, born of imagination.
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