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Sport 12: Autumn 1994

Owning the Language

Owning the Language

S.J. Perelman
took the tribe’s words
one by one
for himself—

He grabbed the witty
and the beautiful,
greedily lusted over
by bourgeois eyes

and petty word crims
the underworld over.
He stole the valuable
and the treasured,

we got left with
the dull and the
worthless, the discarded
sequined fakes

loved by Vegas and
nowhere else.
I hastily wait for
the collapse of

literary communism
so then I too
can become a word-mongering
capitalist marketeer