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