Rippling Rhymes

by Walt Mason

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Everyday work, public opinion and small irritations supply Walt Mason with material for short prose poems that carry a steady rhyme beneath their paragraph form. Farm machinery becomes a joke about the stubborn business of feeding calves, while an editor's influence prompts a comic argument about the responsibility of writers. Other pieces turn to sport, familiar songs, friendship and the pride of Kansas.

Mason's speakers often expose themselves through their complaints. A discouraged job seeker describes the hours he spends waiting around, and visitors burden a newspaper editor with grievances, theories and stale stories. Alongside these comic portraits, a poem contrasts celebrated physical strength with the quiet endurance of a man supporting his mother. Readers interested in newspaper humor and everyday moral advice can find both in these compact, conversational pieces.