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Unread 03-30-2022, 09:26 AM
Jim Moonan Jim Moonan is offline
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It goes unnoticed most of the time; a poem — maybe a sonnet, sometimes a longer one —where a nugget of a short poem is nested. And sometimes the best song lyrics can be broken into short poems that effectively bridge the gap between lyrics and poetry. Like this one:


Well, you should see Polythene Pam
She's so good-looking, but she looks like a man
Well, you should see her in drag dressed in her polythene bag
Yes, you should see Polythene Pam
Yeah, yeah, yeah


Polythene Pam, John Lennon


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