A poet writes a letter to the newspaper
Jul. 24th, 2025 05:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustThe Guardian Letters page recently published this from Blake Morrison: it's a letter, but the bulk of it is a poem (if you don't want to visit the Guardian, search on the title - A Compilation of terrorists - to find it elsewhere).
I like it better as a letter than as a poem: your mileage may vary. It's a list poem, and I liked it best as an invitation to add your own entries to the list. It didn't take me long to start thinking "Adrian Mitchell reciting 'Tell me lies about Vietnam'"
- only of course, the title of that poem is To Whom it May Concern - which makes it another letter to the press, doesn't it?
And here it is:
I like it better as a letter than as a poem: your mileage may vary. It's a list poem, and I liked it best as an invitation to add your own entries to the list. It didn't take me long to start thinking "Adrian Mitchell reciting 'Tell me lies about Vietnam'"
I was run over by the truth one day.
Ever since the accident I’ve walked this way...
- only of course, the title of that poem is To Whom it May Concern - which makes it another letter to the press, doesn't it?
And here it is:
