The Only Things Poems Should Ever Be About -The Toast

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Shipwrecks that happened a long time ago

Non-specific odes to heroic masculinity

Specific odes to a masculine hero

A woman who is taking a bath

What your friends should do when they stand at your grave someday

Greek independence from the damn Turks

The Light Brigade

Highwaymen

Chicago

A woman who is beautiful now but who will someday be old and not beautiful at all

Any other, lesser brigade

Any mortal who was ever captured and taken as a lover by a Greek god

Drummer Hodge

Moral lessons you have drawn from the industriousness of bees

London

Dead prospectors

England

What it might feel like to be hanged to death

Vases

Your friend from your undergraduate days at Oxford who died in the Boer War

The tomb of a king of a country you have never been to

A dream about your lover, who is dead

O tempora o mores

Pastoral metaphors for having sex

Jabberwockies

The trees of your homeland

Turkish independence from the damn Greeks

Your friend from your undergraduate days at Oxford who died in the Great War

Statues

Your friend from your undergraduate days at Oxford who drowned

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