TONY FRAZER, PUBLISHER, SHEARSMAN BOOKS
Tony – these lines simply aim at you
Oarsmen that push out in poor unison
Neophyte, naïf, they strain
Yeasty as a flourish of your books
For they shall be as polestar here
Robust markers for the fullest poems
All effort bobs easily in their slipstream
Zones of life as freshness, further
Elan as they multiply, sparkle
Refine the possibility poets must share
Possibility is born: our enterprise
Unreels the zealous utopias
Bonkers poetasters like us slither to
Look! Here it slushes peatily
Inept I utter – oh at this point
Some authority up from the surf to pull onto
Hopefully a publisher, an alpha one
Enables this poet’s potential to realise
Real poets to utter at their best
Shapelier these stanzas try to shlep
Hereabouts till they think on all your books
Ensurers of our enterprise, Tony, you
Amass the finest, the most that pioneer
Rah rah! for Pessoa, other rarest starters
Senior saints to our poetry trips
Moure, Rileys, Smiths, Lee (him we mourn)
All plus the other shall nourish us
Noble the open unity of your efforts
Books, yes, they are beautiful as you
Open them for us. The sea sleeps now
Open also beneath the pearly moon
Karma, the best, you earn here so please
Suffer these lines to parley some salute to you
Tony – these lines simply aim at you
Oarsmen that push out in poor unison
Neophyte, naïf, they strain
Yeasty as a flourish of your books
For they shall be as polestar here
Robust markers for the fullest poems
All effort bobs easily in their slipstream
Zones of life as freshness, further
Elan as they multiply, sparkle
Refine the possibility poets must share
Possibility is born: our enterprise
Unreels the zealous utopias
Bonkers poetasters like us slither to
Look! Here it slushes peatily
Inept I utter – oh at this point
Some authority up from the surf to pull onto
Hopefully a publisher, an alpha one
Enables this poet’s potential to realise
Real poets to utter at their best
Shapelier these stanzas try to shlep
Hereabouts till they think on all your books
Ensurers of our enterprise, Tony, you
Amass the finest, the most that pioneer
Rah rah! for Pessoa, other rarest starters
Senior saints to our poetry trips
Moure, Rileys, Smiths, Lee (him we mourn)
All plus the other shall nourish us
Noble the open unity of your efforts
Books, yes, they are beautiful as you
Open them for us. The sea sleeps now
Open also beneath the pearly moon
Karma, the best, you earn here so please
Suffer these lines to parley some salute to you
