Thursday, September 08, 2016

Nightmares of a versifier

If I could write like Puccini's librettists
or maybe like da Ponte with Mozart
I should be a happy lyricist
only a frustrated  poetic  art-
(tist) embodies my "soul"
not even close to Gershwin,
Wagner or Cole
Just the little bit of confab
with a lot of blah
this is me -  this is I
who dare with chutzpah.

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