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Poet Pal of Mine Lyrics by William Bolcom

Cabaret Songs, Vol. IV

1997

Poet Pal of Mine!
Dead but so what
Your words, your verse, so striking
Who can ever forget
The sonnet that began
"Oh Russian wolf"
And ended in Japan
And you did write
After all, that villanelle
The world remembers well
With that recurring line:
"Those bones in that cave."
Your loft, modern
As the inside of an earl
Your pride, your poverty
Your weekly sestina
And in your radical phase
Your accusatory pantoum:
"Time, get out of my hair."
And on your deathbed
Your parting shot
Your deathless rondeau
How did it go?
I forget

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