April 25, 2014

Silk Purse

By Tony Brown

He said,

“God, I’m sick of 
poets, of hanging with
poets — those cheesy 
thieves, those fame-famished
greedheads, those little-loved
deluded souls
who think the world
owes them a little regard
just because
they can make music
out of talking.”

I mustered my courage,
gathered my strength,
and responded,

“Hey…

that was a great line.
You gonna use that?”

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A poet with a history in slam, lots of publications; my personal poetry and a little bit of daily life and opinions. Read the page called "About..." for the details. View all posts by Tony Brown

This entry was posted on Friday, April 25th, 2014 at 8:51 pm and tagged with humor, meditations, poems, poems about poetry, poetry and posted in poetry. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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4 responses to “Silk Purse”

• leamuse
  April 26th, 2014 at 1:28 am

  Still laughing here in France!

  Reply
  • Tony Brown
    April 26th, 2014 at 11:13 am

    Excellent! Thanks.

    Reply
• lewis cave
  April 25th, 2014 at 9:03 pm

  I got a good laugh out of this. I really like “Make music out of talking”!

  Reply
  • Tony Brown
    April 25th, 2014 at 9:14 pm

    Thanks. Just a little snark for a Friday night…

    Reply

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