Poet Laureate

Poet Laureate

Don’t you just love those kind of people

Who say:

 I became a poet laureate,

Quite by accident: Is it my fault Homer

Decided to channel his continuation of the

“Iliad” through me?

Then Random House paid me a bazillion

Bucks to publish it?

Do you think this is some clambake?

You’d be mostly right-not much effort

On my part-I’m just a scribe for souls

Much greater than little ol’ me...

However, one of these days, I fully intend

To put some effort and study into poetry

For my own gratification, you see

Don’t hate me for being talented-

Sometimes it can be such a ----ing burden

Especially the applause and all those

Dreadful standing ovations.

Of course this is tongue-in-cheek. I like to think that William Carlos Williams, W. B. Yeats and Billy Collins, all poets who show humility in their work, would agree. Not every poet is humble. I love the ones who truly are.

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