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<dir>What you are about to read was not only submitted to a major poetry competition (which shall go nameless), but it was also submitted as one poem of a book-length collection of similarly styled poems submitted to that competition (guess which one.) Any similarity between this poem and recent poems submitted for critique at Eratosphere by this author--in whole or in part--is completely coincidental. That the author has not yet burned every copy of this poem (and every copy of that book-length manuscript) in no way implies an abiding love, nor a fetish, held by this author for this poem or its alleged aesthetic--He merely keeps this poem as a reminder of "what might have been..." and thanks God nightly that it wasn't. The following lines were written by a purblind amateur; under no circumstance should you attempt this kind of writing at home, nor should you let your children attempt this, nor should you let your dogs attempt this. And, for God's sake, don't send something like this to the **** ******* ***** poetry contest, should you find the previous warning too difficult to heed!</dir>
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My first, of only two written, parody:
<dir>Homage to Millay
I will write Chaos into fourteen lines
and wallow there; and never more will seek escape.
If I am lucky, I will writhe and strain and ape
pleasures where Chaos bends by right designs
into something I can bear. Within these confines,
I will not stray, nor will I fail to rape
from his sweet essence and dimorphous shape
all joys, all madnesses his spirit combines.
Past now: BANNED POSTthe age of my abandon, my sad duress;
I have him. And I will force him into servitude
of what I want and how I want it: BANNED POSTno less.
Though he weep, though he moan—This be understood:
I am a thief whose crimes the gods confess
but do not answer; and I will do him good.</dir>
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