[stylist] Poem - "Advice" - First Draft

[William L Houts]

HI Blinks,

Here's this morning's poem.  It's in more or less even quatrains, but 
the rhyme scheme is wild and woolly.  I'm currently really into fuffing 
around with rhyme schemes and meter, and on the meta level, that's what 
this one's really about, although the theme is almost embarrassinly 
classical.


--Bill



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Advice

Pour your cup of brainlight brave,

stagger down the hall becalmed,

and park it in that chair you style

for tapping true your poet guile.

kisss the sun with syllables

asdolphin keen as wallace words

edit out the killables

and rate your work as billables.

Advice comes cheap, so toss this note

let slip the dogs of fire heart,

and take your royal waiting part

as poet of the seeker: gay

as stars, and twice as bright,

as Adam naming Eden beasts,

O captain of the phrasingfeasts,

you letter-light, you bard.











-- 


"Oh, Sophie!  Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"