Volume 5 | Issue 1 | April - May
2011 |
A Lesson with Mr. Menticulture
Nigel Burwood
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The pupil says: -
'Please Mr. Menticulture,
can you teach me
to live without worry
and fear
and, like, fast?'
Mr. Menticulture replies: -
'Yes. Consider, if it is possible
to, like, get rid of fear and worry,
why is it necessary
to have them at all?'
The pupil says: -
'I get it.
I, like, totally get it.'
(Leaves room.)
Nigel Burwood - Nigel Burwood, British, lives in Santa Cruz, California and also in London and Norfolk part of the year. When he isn't writing poems and publishing them in literary journals, he sells books on the Internet, attends auctions and plays golf. A collection of his poetry is currently published in World's Strand, an international anthology (academici/UK 2006) for which he suggested the title, helping to mold the vision. An English major with a degree from Southampton, favorite poets and writers include Baudelaire, Eliot, Borges, Nabokov and Meades.
