Jan Oskar Hansen Poet Blank verse

The Man Who Sold His Soul

The man who sold his soul

I can’t let go of Christopher Higgins yet, not that I knew him, 
but I have read a couple of his books – not impressed- he is
not an author.  A very erudite man with a photographic mind 
He could remember everything he had read at University, 
and that is impressive and on occasion  he used his scholarship 
prowess to dazzle an opponent to stammering silence.  
But I have been watching man you tube programs of his act
or performance and it struck me one day he has no depths 
and he is also an intellectual  opportunist who realized which 
side of the slice of bread the butter was on.
He was a man who defected from his own youthful promises 
Who sang like a joker and received accolade, because he only
0Raged against the has been – like Kissinger- no one likes him
A mild criticism of the foreskin cutting Jewish practice, but he 
reserved his venom to the Arab world which it became clear
he had only bookish knowledge. He had a good life in America
and seduced by its naivety he continued unsteady journey

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