My E-Mail Rewritten by the Major Poet Mikhail Horowitz

by Sparrow, July 30, 2009

I sent out the following message as a mass e-mail:

 

 

Excellent House Share Available (plus a poem by Sparrow)

 

We're living in a large beautiful house built in 1873 in Teaneck, New

Jersey, next to a 20-acre nature preserve and 5 miles from the George

Washington Bridge.

 

Huge room for rent -- $600 plus utilities.  Share kitchen, two

bathrooms, living room (Steinway piano), dining room, wrap around

porch, yard.

 

Call 201-357-2944 or reply to this e-mail.

 

-Sparrow & Violet

 

And here is that poem by Sparrow:

 

 

My New Poems

 

My new poems

are much more

anarchic than

my old ones.

 

They have

thericity and

glenderiousness.

 

 

Later that day, I received a reply from the renowned poet Mikhail Horowitz:

 

 

Wait! I thought this was the poem:

 

Excellent House Share Available

 

We're living in a large beautiful house

built in 1873

in Teaneck, New Jersey,

 

next to a 20-acre nature preserve

and 5 miles from the

George Washington Bridge.

 

Huge room for rent --

$600 plus utilities.  Share

kitchen, two bathrooms, living

 

room (Steinway piano),

dining room, wrap around

porch, yard. No dogs,

 

iguanas, smokers, drugs,

or layabouts. Glenderious women

and thericitous parakeets OK.

 

 

 

 

"May I quote you in my blog?" I asked Mr. Horowitz, by e-mail.

 

"You may quote me, but only if you do so scoggishly," the bard enigmatically replied.