[lit-ideas] Re: Found Poetry

Anyone got any found poems to share? Best MN

EY: Here's a semi-found prose poem, scantily based on a page from 
_Critical and Historical Essays_, Volume 1, by Thomas Babington Macaulay.

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*This little poem was born in the metropolis of Brahminical superstition*

The poem's authority must descend to its client, in imitation of 
Horace's Otium Divos rogat. Scarcely given a symptom of life, its client 
is inclined to think it could be defeated by the combined forces of the 
Government, language, vacations, a CD-ROM, and the Farmer-General. But 
the poem lives!

Even today, the tax-gatherers of France gratify a judicious lover of 
liberty by reciting it:  "A woman must hate kings if there is a poem for 
which she feels real regard."

This little poem was born in the metropolis of Brahminical superstition. 
It will be here for at least a week, even if you go to all lengths 
against it. It is less suffering than a civil war. We are, therefore, 
unable to anger money.

Dreading the indignation of connoisseurs, the poem turned white and hid 
on the page. Poets see only a confirmation of their prejudices in it; 
and some of the poem's clients are already spoiled to excess--such that 
even you shrink from them, inasmuch as they are no longer able to 
construe a line of characteristic haughtiness.

Others believe the poem a usurper, yet are also inclined to think it 
imprudently generous.





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