Less Than Fresh
I just found a P. S. feature
that I hadn’t seen before.
It’s the one on well-known clichés.
If you use them you’re a bore.
I thought I’d take a look to see
if I had been guilty of
using other folks bright phrases
in a way they’d disapprove.
I was surprised that many thoughts
I believed were mine alone
had before been poetically expressed
and were not mine to own.
It was like being asked to write
an essay extraordinary,
while being banned from using
words from Webster’s dictionary.
Since I am so many years older
than are any one of you,
perhaps when I first wrote them
they were entirely new.
If so I have a legal claim
to some of them, you see.
It’s not I who am transgressing.
You’ve been stealing them from me.
Won no. 9
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