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!
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.
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.
Oh and we are so glad you are here now!!!
I especially like "know-it-all blowhards whose heart’s desire
was a grave like Morrison’s at Père Lachaise."
Heh.
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!
😂
Ha!
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.
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.
Well, if I DO figure it out and write a poem about it, I'll let you know right away!
This right here is your brilliant career, methinks.