about wonderful works of art
name names and be terribly clever
and prove one is frightfully smart
one can quote from zillions of sonnets
and from the all of the war poets too
it's perfectly acceptable
reflects only well upon you
one can talk for a tome about homer
(not from the simpsons, the greek)
acknowledging all epic poets
of whom you're a smug thing to speak
i prefer to infer from the oevres
that the author of course knew his stuff
the work of refining, if mastered
will make it all sound off the cuff
years of study, exams and tuition
wordsmith genii make they do not
and cod-intellectual snobbery
it pisses one off quite a lot