Poems Home All 153 Poems Variously Arranged Latest Additions Most-Viewed Newest First One at a Time Some Notes The Texts Density Analysis Poetic Form Bitslice Rhyme Sculpted Meter Links Indexes Titles First Lines Topics Forms Allusions Parodies Rhythms Languages |
Be Not the First
Be not the first by whom the new is tried:
A. Wait until it’s fully cut-and-dried. B. Hold off till you’re sure that no one died. C. But claim you were and write the field guide. D. We can all try at once and not collide. 17 February 2005
From the Daily Whale.
|