Rejected Poem by George Hunter

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I met St. Peter at the Golden Gate
He said, 'Sorry I had to make you wait.
Your limericks and rhymes, they just don't fit
Amongst these poets who knew their ____..
We have Shelley and Keats and old James Joyce
And even Oscar Wilde, in spite of his choice.
Also have Wordsworth, Milton, and Browning too
And we don't need rhymes about the virtues of brew.
The stuff you write is such a disgrace,
Guess you'll have to go to the other place.'

So I hiked up my jeans and went down below
And found better company there, you know.
There was Ginsberg, Whitman, and Parker, so fair,
Service, E. A. Poe, and Baudelaire,
Kipling, Conrad, Hitchens, and Hawking,
Bertrand Russell, Spinoza, Hume and Dawkins.
I decided that it was A OK by me
To be in such illustrious com-pa-nee.
So I plan to stay and bide my time
Trying to write another rhyme.

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