How To End National Poetry Month
(sing!)
Happy ever after in the coffee bar,
happy ever after in the blog.
Robert Pinsky, hey I like your face
Ob li di, ob la da
Life goes on right?
Life goes on.
In a couple of weeks they have written
a couple of dozen poems.
With a manuscript in the hands
of Desmond and Molly Jones.
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(become!)
Buy a t-shirt that reads: What Would Elizabeth Bishop Do?
Speak in iambic pentameter all day long:
Thank you for the poem about the war.
Roll around in a sonnet.
Buy a bumpersticker that reads: Poets do it in couplets.
Roll around in someone else’s sestina.
Let the world know you love double-dactyls
President Kennedy
Joseph DiMaggio
by changing your name to a double-dactyl.
Say Hallelujah it’s over and give thanks
it only comes once a year.
