Pale Fire

Pale Fire—for Vladimir Nabokov
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How easily I got diverted then—
By Nabokov’s Jack-in-the-Box puzzle
How many emails did I get to send
The NYTimes Book Discussion tussle.
A strange poem inside a weird novel
A Zembla commentary so tres gay
So full of lies you needed a shovel
An exiled old queen so fickle & fey.
After Lolita caused such a big flap
Keeping church & critics busy all day
Mary McCarthy more charmed this new way:
Preface, poem, notes, index so seductive.
After that I was addicted I suppose
To the rest of his Novels more or less…