Passed through a period
of reading sports novels
Passed through a Dreiser, Farrell, Malamud, Baldwin
period
I am great at dropping names, aren't I ?
I've read a lot of poetry and have published a number of chapbooks
Once I had 13 poems in a civil rights magazine
Then I passe through a Tolkien period
and published fan - fic
and Tolkienesque poetry
After that I returned to Planet earth
and read "The Rise of David Levinsky" and other novels about the Lower East Side
I sometimes attend a New Age shul
WHERE THEY READ A POEM AT EVERY SERVICE.
poetry won't pay the bills
but it is a good way to socialize
And it often speaks to the heart
It's not everyone's cup of tea
Speaking of that
the Kettle is boiling and
I'll soon have another cup
and read the Book Review section
I had two odes published in the New York Times
last year
Boasting can be fun!
Especially if you are not wealthy
like the majority of the world's poets
and chess players
The master's hand
created work
which has inspired
many to create
Fan fic, poetry
analysis
all stemming from
the writing
of one man
I hope the flow
of imagination continues!
To all the fans, writers and critics
who have been blessed
by reading
The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and
the many other works which
followed
I wish you peace
and joy
We've all seen
the Shire, Lothlorien
and watch elven folk as they
sang under the stars
As the twilight people say :Namarie
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