Paraphasing the Paraphrase
you wag Hart, to pun on your name in paraphrase
to transform the whole into an organ, to have your beat
taken to heart,
now that is youth, to muck around with form, to tease
out parts from the whole, it is Aristotle and his categories,
it is good to have
geographies to work with like Donne, to train the antartic
see we have one of those commentaries, the type they cast
as insincere
you need to have more Hart, I think then of a lonely deer
see how I grip hold tightly of the pun, how I wring
for all its worth
but less artfully, I move in jest, though I think we are on
the same page, at least we are on board our junk as it sails
gently through paraphrase.
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