Yesterday Marni Soupcoff had a column in the National Post which revealed Toronto had hired a left-wing activist to serve as the city's "poet laureate."
This led me to write the following letter to the editor, which was published in today's paper:
Poetic injustice
Re: A Job No Outspoken Poet Would Want, Marni Soupcoff, Oct. 8.
So Toronto is paying Marxist and militant feminist Dionne Brand a cool $30,000 to act as the city's "poet laureate."
It's news like this which makes me wish I could hire a poet laureate of my own.
I need somebody to help me find a phrase which rhymes with "ridiculous waste."
How 'bout "perfidious taste"?
ReplyDeleteYou can put the cheque in the mail.
VW: You're a poet and don't know it!
ReplyDeleteThe competition for Court Jester is gonna be a dogfight. So many to choose from . .
ReplyDeleteAnybody know who's on the selection committee? I'd like to propose a few names. Like, 45 of them.
Insidious haste
ReplyDeletetax the chaste
f$&k face
So Toronto is paying Marxist and militant feminist Dionne Brand a cool $30,000 to act as the city's "poet laureate."
ReplyDeleteTypical of the dunderheaded and bilious Soupcoff. Agonizing over 30,000 dollars while CanWest is billions in debt and now under creditor protection.
Talent-free rube.