Poetic Licence Renewal Form
Name: John Simon Griffin Gender: Male
       
Date of Birth: 2-2-0-3-5-7
       
Emotional condition: Very frail
       
Address for future income payments: Heaven
       
Certificates of Publication: None
       
Or any hope of being published? No
       
How many people like your poems? One
       
In forty words or fewer here below
give reasons why you want your Pass renewed:
I want to keep my License up-to-date
so I may be permitted rhymes that you'd
not normally allow and to create
more verse in which facts need not be precise
and use conceit or linguistic device
 
 
If this Application is allowed
will you observe the rules and codes of dress
and will you wander, lonely as a cloud
yet never write of daffodils? Oh yes
 
If your verse is broadcast, plays enacted
or novels published, will you still agree
to waste whole days in fancy, quite distracted
like bards have always done? Oh yes. That's me.
 
It just remains for you to sign hereunder
within the space provided, your initials
then, at the perforation, tear asunder
and do not touch the space for the Officials.
Then post it to us with the usual fee.
Signature in block caps: JSG


(Nov 23rd 2006)



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