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Portia's avatar

Oh my, Cecil, this is a delightful pastiche/homage/parody, thank you so much! Well, I guess I can call myself a real writer now. And you managed to make something new of it all, well done!

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Thanks Portia I jokingly say I am a government certified Old Master. Meaning I get social security checks every month for being old and being old I have probably mastered something by now.

Cecil Touchon's avatar

Hi Portia, Yes I hope you don't mind. Language is fluid and open source like water from a water fountain. As a collage artist, any time I am reading anything and I see something interesting, I am always collecting snippets for collage poetry. So in this sence my voice is made of all voices that I come in contact with. Usually anonimously becuase any poem might have arrived from a variety of sources. I have been doing this for 25+ years now! Since I started taking up a daily journal a few years ago I collect them in that journal. Since all of that was from your page I mentioned the source with a link over. Here are some of my books:

https://ceciltouchon.com/publications/

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No, I don't mind, Cecil, I'm actually moved by your interest. As Molière used to say, "Je reprends mon bien où je le trouve", “I pounce on what is mine, wherever I find it”.

You're quite the Renaissance Man, so multi-talented!