Poem Takes the Fifth Amendment

[PrinceMyshkin]

Prosecution: You identify yourself as a poem
and yet you offer no rhyme scheme,
no metaphors or figurative language?

Poem: On the advice of counsel,
I decline to answer,
lest I incriminate myself.

Prosecution: Indeed, no words!
Poem: On the advice of counsel...,

Prosecution: Is this meant to be a provocation?
Poem: ...I decline to answer...

Prosecution: Is it, perhaps, a supposedly clever
way to attract attention to yourself?
Poem: ...lest I incriminate myself.

Prosecution: Or do you, perhaps,
consider yourself so accomplished a poet
and so widely recognized as one
that it is enough for you to refer to yourself
as a “poem” for you to be recognized as one?

Poem: On the advice of counsel...

[Jerrybaldy]

I was just passing and wandered in to see if the poem was going to be given a long sentence.

[Delta40]

lol. Or be held in contempt by others.

[Hawkman]

The jury's still out, or then again, perhaps they moved for a mistrial...

Caveat emptor - H

[Silas Thorne]

I still disagree with you about 'Poem', but this one made me smile. Thanks for giving me a smile first thing this morning, Prince.

I think the repetition of 'on the advice of counsel', the phrase which also closes the poem, is very well done.

[PrinceMyshkin]

I was just passing and wandered in to see if the poem was going to be given a long sentence.

Originally the sentence was going to be as long as one of yours, but the judge overruled that on the grounds that it would be "cruel and unusual punishment."

[Melanie]

Not guiltly by reason of insane sense of humor. The banter in both threads has given me a good laugh and I've delighted in the observation of criticism being taken lightheartedly in much the same vein as was the original intention of The Poem itself, I suspect.

[PrinceMyshkin]

Not guiltly by reason of insane sense of humor. The banter in both threads has given me a good laugh and I've delighted in the observation of criticism being taken lightheartedly in much the same vein as was the original intention of The Poem itself, I suspect.

I on the other hand find you guilty by reason of sanity! How come I don't recognize you? If you always comment as spontaneously as you did here, you'd have long ago become a favourote of mine.

Yes, there was a degree or kind of "lightheartedness" in the compositon of "Poem" but, not to be contrarian, it was a solemn lightheartedness.

[NickBrown]

Very clever. Made my day

[Jerrybaldy]

Ouch Prince.Ouch.
I have respect for you Oldtimer, so let's put a full stop to this right now.

.......unlike your poem which didn't bloody need one as it never got started in the first place.

[qimissung]

Prosecution: You identify yourself as a poem
and yet you offer no rhyme scheme,
no metaphors or figurative language?

Poem: On the advice of counsel,
I decline to answer,
lest I incriminate myself.

Prosecution: Indeed, no words!
Poem: On the advice of counsel...,

Prosecution: Is this meant to be a provocation?
Poem: ...I decline to answer...

Prosecution: Is it, perhaps, a supposedly clever
way to attract attention to yourself?
Poem: ...lest I incriminate myself.

Prosecution: Or do you, perhaps,
consider yourself so accomplished a poet
and so widely recognized as one
that it is enough for you to refer to yourself
as a “poem” for you to be recognized as one?

Poem: On the advice of counsel...

Brilliantly funny, Prince! Is the poem, perhaps, waiting to reveal itself?

[Jassy Melson]

If Prince's "poem" is a poem. then nothingness is a poem.