Editor's Notes

Editor's Notes
by Michael R. Burch

 
Eat, drink and be merry
(tomorrow, be contrary).
 

(B***h and complain
in bad refrain,
but please, not till I'm on the plane!)
 

Write no poem before its time
(in your case, this means never).
 
Linger over every word
(by which, I mean forever).
 

By all means, read your verse aloud.
I'm sure you'll be a star
(and just as distant, when I'm gone);
your poems are beauteous (afar).

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