Steven Grant : “ Every idea is a juxtaposition of existing concepts.”
Wilson Mizner : “ If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism, if you steal
from many, it’s research.”
Great Persons Think Alike
When I notice plagiarism
I do not lose enthusiasm.
I smile to forgive and forget
being generous I accept.
The proverb just to strike
“ Great persons think alike.”
I’m influenced by predecessors
My followers are my successors.
Yet New ideas are to evoke.
Edition, submission to invoke.
Musings roll : Me to dick,
“ Great persons think alike.”
02/10/23
Strand Premiere No. 1192
Contest by Brian Strand
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