ALAN NORDSTROM'S BLOG
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
SMARTASS
for Bottom, the Weaver
Smartass
is an oxymoron, as
Is
wisecrack
(as is
oxymoron
, too),
For each word paradoxically has
A Wise Fool locked inside, as we all do.
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ALAN NORDSTROM
Licensed Verse Practitioner anordstrom@rollins.edu