they pluck you out of a hat
make you more weighty
than you were

and with the authority
vested in you
by the New York Review

you pluck me
from obscurity
and now pronounce me

sharp as a boning knife
wise as potato chips
droll as your wife

now it's my turn to pluck
someone out of something
but who from what

sales are spiking
Wren calls up to say
exuberant

for the first time in a long time
it seems Franklin
is protuberant

the Far East drowning
in typhoons
but now

I'm well reviewed
there is a bumper crop
of rice



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..moving from Workshop to Submit..

I missed this one.  Will look up a few things, but this sounds great.

cheryl

thanks for looking and reporting in, Cheryl...Tom

The last 2 stanzas were puzzling me but its just clicked that The N's book was printed & bound in the Philippines. The N who is:

sharp as a boning knife
wise as potato chips
droll as your wife

wonderful description of him

 

Peter, let's just call them puzzling, though I appreciate your stretch of imagination on my behalf! let me see if I can fix it a bit...Thanks, Tom