Who makes these rules
and regulations
with their attitudes
and platitudes
looking down the bridges
of their bespectacled,
collectacled noses?
Frowning if a word
is offbeat in the sequence
of a stanza.
Who determines if I can
or cannot
add an ‘if’
or an ‘and’
or a ‘gee whiz’
if I so choose?
WWWD
What would Webster do
If I create my own new words?
Who says it is improper
if I wish to:
A-B-C-D or B-C-D-E, or even P-D-Q or X-Y-Z?
Please, introduce me—
I’d like to give him
a piece of my M-I-N-D.
You who are not
faint of heart
LIVE outside your B-O-X!
Jan Chapman
Winter 2007
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