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Date Posted: 15:57:13 11/28/99 Sun
Author: Patti
Author Host/IP: dialup9.pcras1.igateway.com / 207.44.26.9
Subject: Denying the Prize

This is a "found" poem. Any guesses as to the source (the title should help :)?

Chance trumpeted in sterile terms,
the ultimate proof of merit admitting
vague subservience to alien rewards,
I am safe, refusing to tickle the
prejudices of misrepresented tradition.
The final decline of writers of
literary merit is ignored by a
generation of seekers under
compulsion of dollars, absurd
obedience to the highest honor,
as if the judges of the pontifical body
understood the terms of each generation.
Grant that others decline as well,
and consider obedience to critics
and censorship of discernment
the ultimate blasphemy.

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