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Felicia Lamport
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“And what could be moister / Than tears from an oyster ...”
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“Vice / Is nice / But a little virtue / Won't hurt you.”
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“I hereby confess / That of all I possess / I'd most gladly be minus / The sinus.”
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“Some people are born to dictionaries, some achieve them as confirmation presents, and others have them thrust upon them by schools ...”
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“The non-review is essentially a reflexive, not a reflective form. It can be readily identified by its tendency to emphasize the reviewer rather than the book under review. ... once the non-reviewer had discovered what sweet music could be made by blowing his own horn, the form continued its development as a wind instrument for self-enunciation, played every day of the week and con brio on Sundays.”
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“One grows strangely apprehensive / When one comtemplates the sense of / peace offensive, / Which, aggressively commanding / That which passeth understanding / Turns the sentiment it rouses / To: 'A pax on both your houses.'”
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“It seems odd / That whenever man chooses / To play God — / God loses.”
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“Consider the egg. / ... / It's boilable, poachable, fryable; / It scrambles, it makes a sauce thicken. / It's also the only reliable / Device for producing a chicken.”
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“... the publishing firmament pales / When the firms that once shone as its stars / become Jonahs / EnGulfed by conglomerate whales.”
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“Regiments are joining in the Master Charge / That's blowing up the G.N.P. / Hardly anybody now remains at large / Who lacks creditability.”
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“With plastic credit showered on us every day, / We feel so singularly blessed / That we never pause to wonder if we're on the way / To a mammoth card-iac arrest.”
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“After a sudden religious conversion / The shrewd politician can get off the hook / By answering any who cast an aspersion / 'The Lord is my shepherd and I am His crook.'”
Felicia Lamport, U.S. poet
(1916 - 2000)