Anthony+Best+(epic+poetry+slam)

What makes existence **really** nice, is virtue with a hint of vice.- Harry Graham

**Anthony Best** Writers Digest (Statement) My writing style is so cool- to me at least. I always try to rhyme or have some sort of beat. That's probably because I like music so much. I have a huge problem writing a sonnet. In my opinion it is the worst form of poetry I have ever encountered. How can something with that many rules be poetry? I like aliteration but I never seem to use it in my poetry. I just forget to. I believe strongly that you should never ignore the very first things that come to your mind when you think of anything. I think that is the best way to analyze yourself and learn things about you. For this reason I try to use the first things that come to my mind when i'm trying to write anything. Afterward I judge it  **Twenty-twelve (Sonnet)** Oh the eve where men alike, together. On the day forseen by the long ancients. Will be the moment, that those from one reach, and those from another hope their one saves. No one's right when we all go away, 'tis true. For I hope we all separate in time. Our parasitic lifestyle kills the earth. Rich become richer and no one steps to.

**An Ode to my Jacket (Ode)** 40, 32, 20, 0.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">snow, shine, wind, rain.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Wrapping then zipping ready to take on a new day.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">With a stalwart strategy whipping and turning facing the gales telling to my hat "How is going up there?"

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Sitrep reporting extra protection is needed. You crank the gears and pound the cogs and with a swift motion a hood raises.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">And this, an ode to you.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">On the coldest nights and the windiest afternoons, you never turn away

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">from the challenges of a new day. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #d105ff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">**I was raised by** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">"Wake up boy its time to hunt" "Dragging the carcas home will make you strong" "Know when to run" Know when to fight" type of intelligence Wild and exitable yet cunning and slick "Here is the best part" "No work, No food" kind of resourcefulness Death from above AND below Heard before seen why and how, but not when and where you know they're there and so you're scared type of predator Black and Hairy Mean and scary Fast and furious Dark and curious type of predator I was raised by wolves.

=<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Harry Graham = =<span style="color: #0040ff; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 32px;">Vertue is Its Own Reward =

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Virtue its own reward? Alas!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">And what a poor one as a rule!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Be Virtuous and Life will pass

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Like one long term of Sunday-School.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">(No prospect, truly, could one find

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">More unalluring to the mind.) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">You may imagine that it pays

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">To practice Goodness. Not a bit!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">You cease receiving any praise

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">When people have got used to it;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">‘Tis generally understood

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">You find it // easy // to be good. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">The Model Child has got to keep

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">His fingers and his garments white;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">In church he may not go to sleep,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Nor ask to stop up late at night.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">In fact he must not ever do

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">A single thing he wishes to. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">He may not paddle in his boots,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Like naughty children, at the Sea;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">The sweetness of Forbidden Fruits

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Is not, alas! for such as he.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">He watches, with pathetic eyes,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">His weaker brethren make mud-pies. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">He must not answer back, oh no!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">However rude grown-ups may be,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">But keep politely silent, tho’

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">He brim with scathing repartee;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">For nothing is considered worse

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Than scoring off Mamma or Nurse. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">He must not eat too much at meals.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Nor scatter crumbs upon the floor;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">However vacuous he feels,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">He may not pass his plate for more;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">–Not tho’ his every organ ache

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">For further slabs of Christmas Cake. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">He is enjoined to choose his food

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">From what is easy to digest;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">A choice which in itself is good,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">But never what // he // likes the best.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">(At times how madly he must wish

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">For just // one // real unwholesome dish!) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">And, when the wretched urchin plays

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">With other little girls and boys,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">He has to show unselfish ways

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">By giving them his choicest toys;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">His ears he lets them freely box,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Or pull his lubricated locks. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">His face is always being washed,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">His hair perpetually brushed,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">And thus his brighter side is squashed,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">His human instincts warped and crushed;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Small wonder that his early years

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Are filled with “thoughts too deep for tears.” <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">He is commanded not to waste

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">the fleeting hours of childhood’s days

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">By giving way to any taste

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">For circuses or matinees;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">For him the entertainments planned

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Are “Lectures on the Holy Land.” <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">He never reads a story book

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">By Rider H. or Winston C.,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">In vain upon his desk you’d look

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">For tales by Richard Harding D.;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Nor could you find upon his shelf

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">The works of Rudyard — or myself! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">He always fears that he may do

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Some action that is // infra dig. //,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">And so he lives his short life through

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">In the most noxious role of Prig.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">(“Short life” I say, for it’s agreed

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">The Good die very young indeed.) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Ah me! How sad it is to think

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">He could have lived like me — or you!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">With practice and a taste for drink,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Our joys he might have known, he too!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">And shared the pleasure // we // have had

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">In being gloriously bad! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">The Naughty Boy gets much delight

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">From doing what he should not do;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">But, as such conduct isn’t Right,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">He sometimes suffers for it, too.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Yet, what’s a spanking to the fun

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Of leaving vital things Undone? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">If he’s notoriously bad,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">But for a day should change his ways,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">His parents will be all so glad,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">They’ll shower him with gifts and praise!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">(It pays a connoisseur in crimes

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">To be a perfect saint at times.) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Of course there always lies the chance

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">That he is charged with being ill,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">And all his innocent romance

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Is ruined by a rhubarb pill.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">(Alas! “Tis not alone the Good

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">That are so much misunderstood.) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">But, as a rule, when he behaves

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">(Evincing no malarial signs),

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">His friends are all his faithful slaves,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Until he once again declines

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">With easy conscience, more or less,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">To undiluted wickedness. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">The Wicked flourish like the bay,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">At Cards or Love they always win,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Good Fortune dogs their steps all day,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">They fatten while the Good grow thin.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">The Righteous Man has much to bear;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">The Bad becomes a Bullionaire! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">For, though he be the greatest sham,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Luck favours him his whole life through;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">At “Bridge” he always makes a Slam

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">After declaring “Sans atout”;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">With ev’ry deal his fate has planned

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">A hundred Aces in his hand. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">And it is always just the same;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">He somehow manages to win,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">By mere good fortune, any game

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">That he may be competing in.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">At Golf no bunker breaks his club,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">For him the green provides no “rub.” <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">At Billiards, too, he flukes away

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">(With quite unnecessary “side”);

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">No matter what he tries to play,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">For him the pockets open wide;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">He never finds both balls in baulk,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Or makes mis-cues for want of chalk. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">He swears; he very likely bets;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">He even wears a flaming necktie;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Inhales Egyptian cigarettes

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">And has a “Mens Insconscia Recti”

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Yet, spite of it all, one must confess

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">That naught succeeds like his excess. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">There’s no occasion to be Just,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">No need for motives that are fine,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">To be Director of a Trust,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Or Manager of a Combine;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Your corner is a public curse,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Perhaps; but it will your purse. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Then stride across the Public’s bones,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Crush all opponents under you,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Until you “rise on stepping-stones

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Of their dead selves”; and, when you do,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">The widow’s and the orphan’s tears

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Shall comfort your declining years! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">But having had your boom in oil,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">And made your millions out of it,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Would you propose to cease from toil?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Great Vanderfeller! Not a bit!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">You’ve // got // to labour, day and night,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Until you die — and serve you right! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Then, when you stop this frenzied race,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">And others in your office sit,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">You’ll leave the world a better place,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">– The better for your leaving it!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">For there’s a chance perhaps your heir

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">May spend what you’ve collected there. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Myself, how lucky I must be,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">That need not fear so gross and end;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Since fortune has not favoured me

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">With many million pounds to spend.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">(Still, did that fickle Dame relent,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">I’d show you how they // should // be spent!) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">I am not saint enough to feel

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">My shoulder ripen to a wing,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Nor have I wits enough to steal

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">His title from the Copper King;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">And there’s a vasty gulf between

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">The Man I Am and Might Have Been; <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">But tho’ at dinner I may take

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Too much of Heidsick (extra dry),

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">And underneath the table make

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">My simple couch just where I lie,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">My mode of roosting on the floor

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Is just a trick and nothing more. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">And when, not Wisely but too Well,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">My thirst I have contrived to quench,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">the stories I am apt to tell

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">May be, perhaps, a trifle French;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">(For ’tis in anecdote, no doubt,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">That what’s Bred in the Beaune comes out.) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">It does not render me unfit

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">To give advice, both wise and right,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Because I do not follow it

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Myself as closely as I might;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">To point the proper road to // you. // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">And this I’m sure of, more or less,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">And trust that you will all agree,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">The Elements of Happiness

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Consist in being — just like Me;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">No sinner, nor a saint perhaps,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">But — well, the very best of chaps. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Share the Experience I have had,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">Consider all I’ve known and seen,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">And Don’t be Good, and Don’t be Bad,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;">But cultivate a Golden Mean.

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #0040ff; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Enough is as good as a feast**
<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">What is Enough? An idle dream!

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> One cannot have enough, I swear,

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Of Ices or Meringues-and-Cream,

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Nougat or Chocolate Eclairs,

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Of Oysters or of Caviar,

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Of Prawns or Pate de Foie // Grar //! <span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Who would not willingly forsake

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Kindred and Home, without a fuss,

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">For Icing from a Birthday Cake,

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Or juicy fat Asparagus,

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">And journey over countless seas

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">For New Potatoes and Green Peas? <span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">They say that a Contented Mind

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Is a Continual Feast; — but where

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">The mental frame, and how to find,

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Which can with Turtle Soup compare?

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">No mind, however full of Ease,

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Could be Continual Toasted Cheese. <span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">For dinner have a sole to eat,

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (Some Perrier Jouet, ’92,)

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">An Entree then (and, with the meat,

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> A bottle of Lafitte will do),

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">A quail, a glass of port (just one),

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Liqueurs and coffee, and you’ve done. <span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">But should you want a hearty meal,

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> And not this gourmet’s lightsome snack,

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fill up with terrapin and teal,

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Clam chowder, crabs, and canvasback;

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">With all varieties of sauce,

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">And diff’rent wines for ev’ry course. <span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Your tastes may be of simpler type; –

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> A homely glass of “half-and-half,”

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">An onion and a dish of tripe,

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Or headpiece of the kindly calf.

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">(Cruel perhaps, but then, you know,

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">“// ‘Faut tout souffrir pour etre veau!” //) <span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Tis a mistake to eat too much

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Of any dishes but the best;

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">And you, of course, should never touch

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> A thing you // know // you can’t digest;

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">For instance, lobster; — if you // do //,

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Well, — I’m amayonnaised at you! <span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Let this be your heraldic crest,

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> A bottle (charge) of Champagne,

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">A chicken (gorged) with salad (dress’d),

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Below, this motto to explain –

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Enough is Very Good, may be;

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Too much is Good Enough for Me!”

<span style="background-color: #f8f7ed; color: #0040ff; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;">**Learn to Take Things Easily**

<span style="background-color: #f8f7ed; color: #333333; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">To these few words, it seems to me,

<span style="background-color: #f8f7ed; color: #333333; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> A wealth of sound instruction clings;

<span style="background-color: #f8f7ed; color: #333333; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">O Learn to Take things easily –

<span style="background-color: #f8f7ed; color: #333333; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Espeshly Other People’s Things;

<span style="background-color: #f8f7ed; color: #333333; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">And Time will make your fingers deft

<span style="background-color: #f8f7ed; color: #333333; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">At what is know as Petty Theft.

<span style="background-color: #f8f7ed; color: #333333; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Your precious moments do not waste;

<span style="background-color: #f8f7ed; color: #333333; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Take Ev’rything that isn’t tied!

<span style="background-color: #f8f7ed; color: #333333; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Who knows but you may have a Taste,

<span style="background-color: #f8f7ed; color: #333333; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> A Gift perhaps, for Homicide –

<span style="background-color: #f8f7ed; color: #333333; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">(A Mania which, encouraged, thrives

<span style="background-color: #f8f7ed; color: #333333; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">On Taking Other People’s Lives).

<span style="background-color: #f8f7ed; color: #333333; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Fools and their Money soon must be part!”

<span style="background-color: #f8f7ed; color: #333333; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> And you can help this on, may be,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',Garuda,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="goog_qs-tidbit goog_qs-tidbit-0" style="background-color: #f8f7ed; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">If, in the kindness of your Heart,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',Garuda,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="goog_qs-tidbit goog_qs-tidbit-0" style="background-color: #f8f7ed; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> You Learn to Take things easily;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',Garuda,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="goog_qs-tidbit goog_qs-tidbit-0" style="background-color: #f8f7ed; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">And be, with little education,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',Garuda,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="goog_qs-tidbit goog_qs-tidbit-0" style="background-color: #f8f7ed; color: #000000; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">A Prince of Misappropriation.


 * 1) 1 What or who does it adress- It adresses the reader.
 * 2) 2 Structure and form-The poem is simple. It has a beat. I think some type of measure, definitely meter. The rhyme is ABABCC. There are 3 stanzas with 6 lines in each (hence the rhyme pattern).
 * 3) 3 Structural devices: repeats, opposites, punctuation, capitalization- The word take is used a lot. Also, words that are not a specific noun are capitalized like take and gift and homicide. It's correct, not just a mistake from the website i got it from- the poem is actually like that.
 * 4) 4 Lines: Line length, variations, do thoughts continue? What effects do these have on the reader?- It is pretty traditional every other line is either a continuation of another line or the end of the thought.
 * 5) 5 Diction: How does the poet talk to you or express their ideas? How does this effect the reader?- The poem is speaking to me like im reading it in a book- like a short how-to book. It puts ideas in my head; it makes me think about taking things. It's subliminal.
 * 6) 6 Tone: What's the tone? How does it effect the mood?- The tone is expressive. Its also excitable like they are positive towards taking things or the like doing what they are telling you to do. Nearly celebratory.
 * 7) 7 Image: What are some strong images or metaphors? How does it add to the poem?- "Your precious moments, do not waste, take ev'erything that isn't tied!" It puts the picture of just snatching everything in someones house when they turn around or go to another room. It's funny to me. It tells me to be an opportunist.
 * 8) 8 Thesis:

<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">#1 The poem "Enough is as good as a feast" adresses the reader. The central theme or topic is all the foods the speaker in the poem likes to eat and cant get enough of. <span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">#2 Th structure is the same as the first poem. It's simple, the rhyme scheme is ABABCC. There are 6 lines in each stanza. <span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">#3 the structure is like a list, with each line listing one or two foods that seem delicious to the writer. Each different food is capatalized along with adjectives describing it (Entree, Side, Liquor etc.) <span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">#4 The lines are approximately the same length with about the same amount of words. The first line of each stanza tends to be about 8 syllables. <span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">#5 The poet is exited and happy thinking about all the foods he loves to eat. It makes me read it faster as if the speaker is quickly and excitedly telling me all these things. <span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">#6 The tone is quick, smooth, literate, and exited. The mood is effected because I love to eat, and when I read all these things and imagine them in my head I feel good. It also makes me read the poem faster because I want to hear more foods. <span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">#7 Some strong images in the poem are "A homely glass of half-and-half, An onion and a dish of tripe, Or headpiece of the kindly calf. (Cruel perhaps, but then, you know, (“ //<span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Faut tout souffrir pour etre veau!” //<span style="font-family: Symbol,sans-serif;"> )". That last line of French translates roughly to "But everyone would like the veal!" I enjoyed that brief line of a different language. It didnt take away from the flow at all and i could kind of recognize what he was saying even though I dont know French.  <span style="background-color: #c7ffc7; font-family: Symbol,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">#8