Recently, I read Ed Matlack's Poem ...
“For those of us who don’t play with the band…”
and I posted Auden's poem "The Unknown Citizen. There was another, quite similar, but I couldn't remember the Title. I just re-discovered it - I had posted it here, 8 years ago, and only 3 people commented on it.
Think of current events as you now read it. Think of our Government's (Both Parties) treatment of Mr. John Q. Public ...
Back in 1962, in College, I read this poem -
It really says a lot - Reminds me of Orwell’s ‘1984’
Tom Hyland
A VITAL STATISTIC
ANONYMOUS
"HE WAS A VERY CAUTIOUS MAN
WHO NEVER ROMPED OR PLAYED;
HE NEVER SMOKED, HE NEVER DRANK,
NOR EVER KISSED A MAID.
AND WHEN HE UP AND PASSED AWAY,
HIS INSURANCE WAS DENIED,
FOR, SINCE HE HADN'T EVER LIVED,
THEY CLAIMED HE NEVER DIED !"
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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