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Unread 08-12-2010, 05:58 PM
Julie Steiner Julie Steiner is offline
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I have worms; you've the Phoenix. The adjective scenic’s
applied more to you than to me. (What a bummer!)
I don’t attract dancers, and nobody answers
with “Compost!” when asked how to welcome midsummer.
I’m casteless, you’re Brahmin. We’ve nothing in common
except for our function: we deal with the dead.
Your role? The cremation of thick vegetation.
My purview’s digesting old garbage instead.

Oh, don’t be so modest! Your reign is the broadest:
you’ve colonised every bachelor’s flat.
The effortless ruler of crisper and cooler,
you clearly outrank me, considering that
you form undetected. I must be collected
and lit; you’re spontaneous, even if slow.
Your decomposition needs no one’s volition,
while mine needs a frustrated poet’s, you know.

(Any glaring Americanisms this time? Is "bummer" okay? I was proud of myself for changing "colonized" to "colonised" on my own.)

Last edited by Julie Steiner; 08-12-2010 at 09:37 PM.
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