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A Word From the Editor
After reading through so many tearful wrenchings
with gaping and gasping and clammy palm clenchings
I now declare by proxy and by pen
herewith never to allow that word again
Not only that, I’ve also decided
to ban any utterance that sounds just like it
or references to anything that might imply
that any of us could possible “ostrichfy”
Yes this year a lesson I’ve learned
and as far as the following ones are concerned
when you consider which poems to be submitting
no verses on ostrich I’ll be admitting
You may find this decree hard to understand
and claim I’m putting my head in the sand
perhaps in another year or three
when you’ll probably vote to get rid of me
My successor may revoke this rule you deem shoddy
but until then…over my ostrich body
© Johnmichael Simon
2008
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