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'Nothing to Say' is a satirical narrative poem about society at the time, as seen through the lens of the author Mortimer Thomson, who wrote under the pseudonym Q. K. Philander Doesticks. He was an American journalist and humorist.
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Nothing to Say - Q. K. Philander Doesticks
Q. K. Philander Doesticks
Nothing to Say
A Slight Slap at Mobocratic Snobbery, Which Has 'Nothing to Do' with 'Nothing to Wear'
Published by Good Press, 2020
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NOTHING TO SAY.
I, Q. K. P. Doesticks, of No Hall, Nowhere;
No Castle, no Villa, no Place, Court, or Terrace;
Who didn’t write Junius,
or Nothing to Wear,
Who never have visited London or Paris;
Who am not a phantom, a myth, or a mystery,
But a homo,
as solid as any of history;
As real as Antony, Cæsar, or Brutus—
A
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