[Newspoetry] Leap Year Calendelle

[William Gillespie]

1999, Year of the Unknown:
a Leap Year Calendelle

I had aspired to be, above all, literary,
But last year I emerged a dignitary
And wandered through Ivy League arch-
ways, gripped by a, should I say, thrill
Suddenly I obtained suit and attache'
a camera, computer (and a computer job).
Stretching credit like a manic fool, I
Crawled out of a depressive bog. I must
Have drunk 1000 beers, but I remember
Each trip vividly: how I shocked sober
Academics. Easily I would dismember
Pretension, smoking 1999 to its ember.

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"Unknown" in title links to:
http://www.soa.uc.edu/user/unknown/brownread1.htm

Apologies for the newslessness of this, redunant plugs to the Unknown,
and its tardiness as a year-in-review poem. I had to try this form, and
here's the result.

See if you can spot the extra restriction I imposed upon the original
rules (I don't mean the leap year line)...
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