Lawrence Hall, HSG
The First Folio of You
On the 400th anniversary of the First Folio
Of some playwright or other in England
I fear that there will never, ever be
A First Folio of the works of – Me!
Bound in leather most luxuriously
For sale at a wildly exorbitant fee
Scanned for pleasure over cups of tea
And studied by academics thoughtfully
Beloved by the climbing bourgeoise
As much as by the high nobility
I can’t adorn my poems with a PhD
So will kind readers accept a high school degree?
