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Part II
The Candidate sits all aloneConceding defeat on the phoneIn a room made for dancesAnd budding romancesHis dreams die with barely a moan
Posted to Poems by NoStar on November 13, 2007
Frank Bidart's "Candidate" Rewritten As A Limerick
But first, some commentary: Men writers, and especially men poets, have had to deal with being thought of as weaklings. Norman Mailer (a writer, but not a poet as far I as know) died recently. He was a writer, but he was no wimp. I am no big fan of Mailer's writing, but I admire the gusto he showed and the way he embraced life. I should have ...
Posted to Poems by NoStar on November 13, 2007