Anthony Burgess

I bought this book, You've Had Your Time by Anthony Burgess and it inspired the following musings.

If I knew I was dying soon I'd be typing my head off. (just like him)

Will forgotten poetry return to me?
I have lived long enough
to watch words come around,
And to know that this, too, has been noted before.
This, too, shall return.
Rolling Stones, for example,
"And all my words come back to me,
In shades of mediocrity".
And all my prose comes back to me,
In some else's poetry.

A life pinned to a phrase
that returned.


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Advice:
A bag full of tricks,
some of which work.