Jack Foley (painting by Anthony Holdsworth)
Nobody reads me
I'm not published enough
My work is magnificent
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Nobody reviews me
Nobody buys my books
If only I were reviewed I could be famous
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If only I were on the radio
Or on the television
Or if someone would make a movie of my life,
THEN
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Someone would buy my books
Someone would review me
They'd know
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How magnificent my mind is
What a major poet I am
How my work will be read hundreds of years from
now though
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NOW nobody is reading me
There will be books about me
I am great
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My ex wives will be famous
My children will be famous
My ancestors will light up in their tombs only
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Nobody reads me at the moment
Why can't I be famous while I'm still around
I tell them: Sometimes I publish under the
pseudonym, "John Ashbery"
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Jack Foley
Jack Foley |
The Alsop Review
