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Ode to Irving Layton

by Chris Sorrenti


Who is this fiery man of passion?
waving his fists on my TV screen
is it really that Picasso of Poetry?
out to shake the pillars again

I've gulped down his words
like a thirsty Arab
whose camel just died
in a Saharan storm
hungered for a glimpse
of his animated facial image
and now I can't believe it
he's really there!

Larger than life and
a hundred times more poetic
than any of his books
I've ever read



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