All Their Stanzas Look Alike

All their fences
   All their prisons
All their exercises
   All their agendas
All their stanzas look alike
   All their metaphors
All their bookstores
   All their plantations
All their assassinations
   All their stanzas look alike
All their rejection letters
   All their letters to the editor
All their arts and letters
   All their letters of recommendation
All their stanzas look alike
   All their sexy coverage
All their literary journals
   All their car commercials
All their bribe-spiked blurbs
   All their stanzas look alike
All their favorite writers
   All their writing programs
All their visiting writers
   All their writers-in-residence
All their stanzas look alike
   All their third worlds
All their world series
   All their serial killers
All their killing fields
   All their stanzas look alike
All their state grants
   All their tenure tracks
All their artist colonies
   All their core faculties
All their stanzas look alike
   All their Selected Collecteds
All their Oxford Nortons
   All their Academy Societies
All their Oprah Vendlers
   All their stanzas look alike
All their haloed holocausts
   All their coy hertero couplets
All their hollow haloed causes
   All their tone-deaf tercets
All their stanzas look alike
   All their table of contents
All their Poet Laureates
   All their Ku Klux classics
All their Supreme Court justices
   Except one, except one
Exceptional one.  Exceptional or not,
   One is not enough.
All their stanzas look alike,
   Even this, after publication,
Might look alike.  Disproves
   My stereo types.

       All Their Stanzas Look Alike from The Maverick Room
       Thomas Sayers Ellis

Comments

[Earl Bockenfeld]

Here's a Beach Boys knock-off back at ya.
http://www.freewayblogger.com/iraqomo.swf

Iraqomo from the Freeway Blogger.
(don't know how to put a link in TypeKey)

Don't mean to insult you with a age-centric link, but it works for me and I thought you might enjoy.

http://oldbluewebdesigns.com/TakeMeBackToTheFifties.htm

[blue girl]

Earl -- I loooove 50's music. Just love it. When I was little, I had an older cousin who had every record possible. And he knew how much I loved the music and he made me tapes of his entire library. From what I remember, it was casettes --(would that be possible -- 1970-ish?) but, I'm not sure about that. I do remember it was a TON of music. My dad's got the box down in TX and you've reminded me that I have to remind him again to send it up to me!

Love that music. Thanks for the link.