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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460317" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tony Hoagland</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">and yes even the photo<br>on the back cover<br>as if he’d gone to the studio, <br>said, I’ve written this book<br>of seriously funnily serious verse so<br>make me into a randy curate<br>in a dropped-trouser farce<br>or OK like a real cleric then<br>looking sideways over his spectacles<br>as he drops a wicked line in his sermon<br>and the packed front pews of ladies<br>of a certain uncertain age<br>quiver with a well-dressed lust, <br>and yes, highlight my bald dome, <br>I liked the Dr Doolittle stories didn’t you, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and that hair like a classroom demo<br>of iron filings standing to attention on<br>a ball magnet, or if we’re trying<br>to match his humour, you noticed then, <br>since this is a covert fan-letter disguised<br>as a don’t miss - his hair peeping over the dome<br>like that moment in a film when<br>a double-page spread of Indians suddenly<br>appear over the brow of the wide-screen hill</div><div style="margin:10px 0">while inside the book, just as you laugh at the wit<br>he’s moved on to serious, and the tears of things</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and you think this is how to be<br>American and triumph over being</div><div style="margin:10px 0">me I’d just like to go up after a reading<br>and sincere sincere and straightfaced fan-style<br>say to him, when I read you hear you<br>I wonder if poets aren’t the how shall I <br>put it, unacknowledged legislators of<br>mankind if you see what I mean...? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and we’d do as many double-takes<br>as it takes because<br>to him, I’d mean it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How close laughter can be to tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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of seriously funnily serious verse so
make me into a randy curate
in a dropped-trouser farce
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looking sideways o..."></div>
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