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The Poetry of Nicholas Hancock
The Poet of Despair
Published by The British Hancock Society
with the permission of the author.


CREATIVE QUOTATION


CREATIVE QUOTATION

It is not any less unwise
to put one's faith in circled c's
than pentagrams. To plagiarise
is not a literary disease;
it is an innocent reprise
of twice-milked words and pays as well
as using rennin to make cheese:
re-using other's thoughts will sell.

If they are curdled well, there'll rise
a recalled odour that will please.
You've simply taken a franchise
on Conan Doyle or Sophocles -
or called your book Gone with the Breeze.
Although it's true we must dispel
doubts on our bookish pedigrees,
re-using other's thoughts will sell.

And if we want to legalise
the thefts, we copywrite all these
and as it were internalise
what we've consumed, at ease
with literature and at a squeeze

with conscience and truth's rotting shell.
When our thought's fallen to the lees,
re-using other's thoughts will sell.

But what if someone else should tease
the plagiarist and knoll his knell?
Despite the risk, the whole world sees
re-using other's thoughts will sell.
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