THE EGOTISTICAL SUBLIME
That duff Tory, Mr Wordsworth, with his women waiting,
and the hills too, for all I know,
traipsed these empty horizons covetously;
but while the POET was in Germany
De Quincey and Coleridge squatted in his cottage
conspicuously consuming
his meagre thread of dreams.
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And you never forgave them, did you, Mr Wordsworth?
Nursing your resentment like a baby
as you searched, and searched again, for that space
that separates you from the hoi polloi, humanity.
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Keep the riff-raff out! Stop the trains!
The city will do for the likes of seditious William Blake,
as you, Mr Wordsworth, grip your five-bar gate
and compose yourself, yet again.