Best of the "Best" of '93

by

Hardy Parkerson

I read "Best American Poetry 1993".
Little therein appealing to me.
I read the book with a smile;
Little therein that's worthwhile.

What is all of this stuff?
To me it looks pretty rough.
If these poems are the "best",
I'd hate to read the rest.

What happend to rhyme, is it out?
What's this "best" poetry all about?
Has lyric poetry become passe,
A relic of another day?

The best of the "Best" was Carruth,
Whose "At His Last Gig" tells the truth
Of a farewell speech at a gig by a ham
Who then embarked for Amsterdam.

Reared on the poems of Byron and Keats,
Of Tennyson, Coleridge, Shelly and Yeats,
You know a good poem when you see one.
And, sadly, among the "Best" there is none.

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from: Woking, England, UK

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