Friday, January 28, 2011

Ode to slavery , Canto II

And then the divine orders came
write oh slave of glory and fame!
Thus this Coleridge drank some rum
Muse be thine sanctum sanctorum!
Short point became that magnum-opus,
Playing a game in hocus-pocus
Of many a tale thus spake I
Mailing the whole I heaved a sigh!
Though unread back it came
Headline is too long was the claim!
But I never doubt his judgment
He who nods off my payment.
Thus I kept following in sleep and walk
What wrote Jennings Brenkeley and Roebuck!
And at time came Ogden Nash
Livening the writing that is trash!
But i confess now today
A by-line i get each Sunday!
This oh master is more to me
Still pay in time would better be !

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