I didn’t give them the chance to reject these.
....
Court Poetry
Way back, there was a Margaret Court,
a champion in — guess which sport.
M. Court’s court play was rarely capped.
Why couldn’t Miss Smashnova’s name
boast m instead of n? A shame:
“Smash ’m ova” sounds so neat and apt!
Remember Vitas Gerulaitis?
His name will evermore invite us
to think of some slow nerve debility.
And pity poor Dementieva;
no courtcraft mastery can save her
from prompting thoughts of mad senility.
....
Deconstructionism Deconstructed
Said Barthes,
In literary art
what the author meant
is irrelevant.
Derrida
privileged de reader
next
to de text.
Fish
found a niche
in book production
on deconstruction.
The proper response to Barthes:
an authorial fart;
we never did need a
Derrida;
and as for Fish,
pish!
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