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Open Poetry #2

He's Proust and We Aren't

Dom Mart
Member

since 1999-08-17

Posts 164
Florida

0 posted 1999-09-21 06:20 AM

Proust bundled up in blankets,
In summer he wore a big coat.
Maman Proust said, "He's my baby,
Can I help it if I dote?"

Pere Proust had a constitution
Like a blue ribbon bull or ox.
Did he think that his son Marcel
Was a creeepy little fox?

Imagine all the attention
The invalid would consume
Propped up on his comfy pillows
In his sunless cork-lined room

Being completely useless,
Scribbling his life away,
Explaining to the curious,
"This will be a book some day."

"Hypochondriac," some would sneer.
Proust's behavior left them aghast.
Let's hear what they say after reading
Remembrance of Things Past.

Pepper
Member Elite

since 1999-08-19

Posts 3079
Southern Florida

1 posted 1999-09-21 07:16 AM

nice poem.....thanks for sharing Dom.....

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