The Golden Rule by Earnest Noyes Brookings
The Golden Rule
Some elderly people in nursing homes take to watching television endlessly, doing crosswords or gazing out of the window, but Esrnest Noyes Brookings was set a task by David Greenberger to write poems. Greenberger would supply a topic for the poetry and the next day, whilst working at the nursing home, he would receive the finished poem. Brookings’ poems all follow an ABAB rhyme scheme but the utter lack of concern with literary devices and self-consciousness which often strangles writers is a fresh relief when reading this large, enduring collection.
While all flake cheese
Pressed out of milk
Requires no sneeze
No relation to silk
On plates evident
Relieving partial hunger
Costs more than a cent
But a delicious wonder.
- ‘Cheese’
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