Having appeared in adjacent poems
My grandfather Joe and the assassin
Sparafucile have struck up
A sort of friendship. They've come up
With a proposal for a poem in which
They could appear together.
I can't quite fit it in so I've hired
Another writer who likes Sparafucile
(Everyone likes Sparafucile except
A woman in Ohio) but has problems
With Joe. It's been proposed that Max,
My other grandfather, take his place
And we try for a sort of Ernest Lubitsch
Light-comedy effect. Baba Yaga's agent
Says she's interested in playing
Sparafucile's daffy girlfriend.
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