Stanley Cooper Biography

Punctuation, stepchild tool of writing
Does not get it’s write-ful due
If we stopped this literate slighting
It would be a literal coup
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Is it really so depraving
I like to eat a lot?
The thought of food I’m craving
Just ties me in a knot
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To artistic integrity
I make no claim
Rhyming eccentricity
Is more my game
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“The war to end all wars” they said
And were naively believed
By those who now are honorably dead
Never knowing they were deceived
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When I was youthful
I was thoughtfully agile
To be perfectly truthful
I'm now thoughtfully fragile
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