it's been a long long time
since I looked at Dr. Williams
back in my day
his mastery of common speech
was a great touchstone
for many of us young'uns coming up
but now that I've gotten old
I read him with renewed appreciation
of the insights unlocked by his tongue and his ear
now I understand him and see as experience
what once were ruminations on ever-approaching life
while the schoolmarms
fashioned a canon based on their prejudices
and their ambitions
and...being vasemakers all...
see finally up a vase for the good doctor
he supplied the rose to put in it
and all lifelong attempts at shattering vases...
trained by the doctor but pig-headedly breaking
rules on my own (the vanity of it...as I see it now
but am stuck with the life's worth of collateral damage)
well I smashed those vases to free and deliver the rose
even if it was to its own doom...
even this is contained in Imagination...
I hope I've done him and other not too great
a dishonor...
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