Everybody Makes Poets versuri

Versuri Ogden Nash – Everybody Makes Poets lyrics

Poets aren’t very useful,
Because they aren’t very consumeful or very produceful.

Even poets of great promise
Don’t contribute much to trade and commerce,

To which, indeed, even poets of great achievement
Are a positive bereavement,

Because they aren’t very sensible,
Because they think buying and selling are cheap and lousy and reprehensible,

And this is a topic about which poets are people to whom you cannot tell anything,
Because they are people who cannot afford to buy anything and are seldom glib enough to sell anything.

Some poets are bitter,
But they are preferable to the poets who are all of a twitter,

But even the poets who are all of a twitter are as dependable as rotary
Compared to what each of them has around him which is a rapturous coterie,

Because every poet is constantly threatened by one disaster,
Which is that a lot of otherwise thwarted male and female ladies will go around calling him Master,

And then there is nothing to do but surrender,
And then it is good-by old poetry, hello old theosophy and gender,

And yet on the other hand if a poet isn’t fed by a lot of male and female ladies who are affected,
Why, until long after he is dead or gets the Pulitzer Prize, why he is neglected.

So my advice to mothers is if you are the mother of a poet don’t gamble on the chance that future generations may crown him.
Follow your original impulse and drown him.