Notes From the Cape Town Book Fair
by Gus Ferguson
The free coffee is
awful the expensive
disappointing
*
So much for literacy:
Hordes of intellectuals
shoving and bickering
to exit the entrance.
Publishers beware!
Publish, and be damned by your
writers in chatrooms.
*
For those you do
you never do enough
and, for those you don’t,
your reputation’s stuffed.
*
A plagiarism
panel discussion? I’m sure
I’ve heard that before!
*
“There are no original ideas”
Now there’s a thought!
Who said that?
*
How clever of Edwin Morgan
to copyright his poem
about God not copyrighting
the Universe.
*
Narcissus at the wadi
was almost washed away.
So made himself a website
he visits every day.
