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pamm hanson's avatar

Oh and we are so glad you are here now!!!

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pamm hanson's avatar

I especially like "know-it-all blowhards whose heart’s desire

was a grave like Morrison’s at Père Lachaise."

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

Heh.

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Cathy Wickham's avatar

Retirement must be sweet from a challenging career! Drawing out the best of "the book inside" looks like more than grammar and style from those thar swamps!

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

😂

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Laura Pilnick's avatar

Ha!

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Mary Holscher's avatar

Love the next to last stanza: “thankless labor

of yanking a malformed would-be masterwork

from an eager beaver with a book inside.” And the last line. I think I feel something equivalent as a retired psychologist though have no idea how’d I’d express it in a poem.

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

That's very funny! I was playing on the well-known phenomenon of the person who says, "I know I have a book inside me." Don't know what the equivalent statement would have been in your field. If you figure it out and write a poem about it, I will publish it here as a guest post.

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Mary Holscher's avatar

Well, if I DO figure it out and write a poem about it, I'll let you know right away!

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

This right here is your brilliant career, methinks.

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