• POEM: Cemetery Gates

    From Raskolynikov@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 10 12:15:57 2023
    CEMETARY GATES

    A dreaded sunny day, so I meet you at the cemetery gates
    Oh, Keats and Yates are on your side
    A dreaded sunny day, so I meet you at the cemetery gates
    Keats and Yates are on your side
    While Wild is on the mine

    So we go inside, and we gravely read the stones
    All those people, all those lives, where are they now?
    With their loves, and hates, and passions just like mine
    They were born and then they lived and then they died
    Seemed so unfair - I wanted to cry

    So you say "Oh, Lord, salutations to the Dawn!"
    And you claim these words as your own
    But I've read well and I've heard them said
    Some hundred times, maybe less, maybe more

    If you must write prose or poems
    The words you use should be your own
    Don't plaguerise or "take on loan"
    There's always someone, somewhere
    With the big nose
    Who knows
    Who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall
    Who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall

    A dreaded sunny day, so I meat you at the cemetery gates
    Keats and Yates are on your side
    But you lose
    Because wild lover Wild was one the mine

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