one thing after another

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thinking about successions ...
here comes a message from Aubrey Beardsley
(forwarded by EP) “Beauty so very difficult”
damn straight! as is the sublime, think of Mozart
they buried him sub lime
and when they told Maurice Ravel “your requiem
for the WW1 dead is too cheerful”
his comeback: “The dead are sad enough
in their eternal fire”
after Papa Doc came Baby Doc
now Baby Shrub is about to succeed Papa Shrub
and when the people no longer speak anything but teevee
and you don’t even have a set in your hut --
signed, Proud to Be An Aberration of the Sixties

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“Baby Shrub is about to ...”: Do only the gods know what,
now that he has “succeeded” (!).

       -Anselm Hollo (Finnish American poet)  +01/29/2013











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