heroes should be recognised at birth
which would save them the incon
venience of a firstname
that nobody will want to use,as for example
Voltaire now there was a guy;
less than h a p
p y with françois-marie arouet
as a handle(and who can
blame
him?)
he up and invented his own name
he would have invented God too
if God hadnt already
existed
or take Beethoven who
for all i know
might even have been God
or then again Picasso(who justifies(more than most)
his capital letter)
he really didnt need
the pablodiegojoséfranciscodepaula
nepomucenomaríadelosremedios
ciprianodelasantísimatrinidadruiz
that he was lumbered with from birth
ok it's easy enough to make
f u n
of people with flatfish faces
both
éyès
on one side iaskyou
!
but who can look at faces the same
since he drew them that way(?)
and if people don't (real
ly) look like that
some of them
jolly
well
ought
to
(in the style of e e cummings, in case you didn't recognise it)