If I write poetry, I always…

If I write poetry, I always hear Morrisey's venomed taunt :

If I write poetry, my internal critic recalls Morrisey's taunt :

"Oh, I didn't realise that you wrote poetry
I didn't realise you wrote such bloody awful poetry, Mr. Shankly"

https://genius.com/The-smiths-frankly-mr-shankly-lyrics

Its similar to Christopher Hitchens who was endowed with a similar acidic wit: “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”

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