I Did Not Post A Poem Today Poem by Frank Avon

I Did Not Post A Poem Today



for Miss Mandolyn

i did not post a poem today
exactly why i cannot say
but this i know
as sure as snow
i did not post a poem today

maybe it's not too late

maybe i can post a poem right now
i'll try and try and try - and how!

where's miss emily anyhow?

she flew away on a purple cow
and she won't be back till a week from now


not muchuva poem, but that's ok
i posted some rhymes anyway
i posted some lines today
it doesn't matter what they say
i posted a modernist poem today

so miss emily can come back now
whether she's ever seen a purple cow

Friday, October 17, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: nonsense
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Shhh! don't tell my children that I actually posted these lines on the Internet. They'll disinherit me for sure. (Wait, I got that backwards, didn't I?) All through their childhood, when they would say 'fair's mommy? ' (=where's Mom?) , I'd answer, ''She flew away on a purple cow, and she won't be back till a week from now.' They hated those lines even more than when I strutted through the house chanting, 'In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree....' So this nonsense verse is our secret, OK?
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