Rigours of the Academy
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1 min readMar 16, 2019
poem by Matthew de Lacey Davidson
There once was a substantive poet
successful (at last), and he lectured on how to bestow it:
“To express feelings, strong —
in poetry’s wrong —
your thoughts must be shallow — or you’ll blow it!”
With regards to both meter and rhyme
the two he’d prefer to beslime.
So harshly he’d scold:
“You know that that’s old-
fashioned — an execrable crime!”