Homage to New Poet Laureate
by Earl J. Wilcox
Where
Were you
Those years
I needed you
When critics
Told me
Little
Tall
Thin
Poems
Did not
Work
Only
Old maids
Like Emily Dickinson
Or old farts,
Like me,
Write
Poems
Sticking up
Like a
Middle
Finger
At the world.
Earl J. Wilcox writes about aging, baseball, literary icons, politics, and southern culture. His work appears in more than two dozen journals; he has contributed 37 poems to the New Verse News.
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