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Thursday, November 24, 2005

SIMI@N TH@NKSGIVING

A PSEUDO-SONNET
bY Bill Costley


A year ago, I began singing

in an Episcopal church choir
as 2nd bass-baritone, joking:
"I'm one of the singing apes!"

after seeing a TV-documentary
on a family of singing tree-apes
marking their aerial territory
by singing out its boundaries
to each other, from tree to tree.

Singing's output; eating's input;
'sing' for simi@n-supper & eat it.

Few 1st-world poets refuse to,
so Gary Corseri's daring us to
refuse by f@sting on this day.


Bill Costley serves on the Steering Committee of the San Francisco chapter of the National Writers Union.