Donal: Could even play a game of what certain poets (Eliot, Auden) might produce if given a set task Auden managed to write "Under Which Lyre" as a commencement ceremony poem. There are some successfuloccasional poems. Here are some less-successful possibilities:
*Charles Bukowski's poem celebrating World Cup Soccer. *John Berryman's poem celebrating National Health Awareness Week. *Anne Sexton's poem for the National Right to Life Association. *Philip Larkin's poem for the (US or UK-equivalent) PTA. *Chatterton's Ode to Copyright*The newly discovered poem by Quintus Horatius Flaccus, "Arse Poetica," which blows the lid on mutual blurbing, good-buddy grant hogging, and MFA mafia corruption by bards.
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