@ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; Elegy For Planter's-Twang, A Sonnet

Planter's-Twang died the other day.

Never had anyone found so much to say

of the most exquisite poetry

on our channel twenty-two fellowship on the c.b.


Planter's-Twang died the other day.

Haters and prudes, with their prejudiced nomenclature

said that they suspected his lifestyle was "that way":

in other words, he loved according to his born nature.


Planter's-Twang befriended me,

and when I returned from the University

that first winter break, he said that he respected

the path toward which I had been directed.


Planter's-Twang died the other day.

They tell me he had been very ill since this past May.


J-Called



Author's Notes/Comments: 
His handle was derived from Wallace Stevens' long poem, Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction, II:V.

The first line is a parody of the title and first line of e.e. cummings' poem, "Annie Died The Other Day."
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