improving / rules

[Henry Gould <AP201070@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If music is a langa-widge,
Den grammar is de rules;
Dem rules juss extra bagga-widge
Unlest you knows yo tools.

Dem tools dey juss scrap metal gunk
Unlest you hears dat soun'--
Dat soun' yo heartbeat plunk-tee-plunk,
An makes DE WORL' GO ROUN'!!

- Excerpt from "Complete Poems and Collected Garbage of
Emily What-th Dickenson", NY: Sort of Hard Pressed, 1943

--Hank O'Blarney Gould