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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.

THE MASTURBATING PEN
THE MASTURBATING PEN

The greatest
creation
of art is
the artist.

He paints from an empty palette,
writes with a dried up pen;
he carves with a headless mallet -
strokes his ego all over again.

The work of art
is pretext:
both ode and frieze
are Zimmer frames
supporting
frail self-love.

He sits in the waiting rooms of our minds
clutching a biro whose semen is blue
and scans into joy the tedium that binds
moment to moment, spelling untrue
the meaning of life and rhyming it wrong.
Spinner of dreams, queen bee laying thoughts
infertile without the jelly of song,
now he sublime psychoses disports.


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