Not So Swift

THIS IS IN RESPONSE TO A PIECE IN THE NEW YORKER ABOUT TAKING A CLASS TO LEARN HOW TO WRITE A SONG LIKE TAYLOR SWIFT

("Write Like T. Swift"- The Talk of the Town-December 16, 2024)

I am too old or maybe not

To learn all Taylor's tunes

I was schooled on Beatle's songs

With teenage girls who swooned

I know not of her boyfriends lost

And Ms. Swift’s sad laments

Her facile thoughts and quick retorts

To those her dethroned gents

All I know is "Yesterday"

And Sergeant Pepper's band

I would have surely failed the course

Taught in Swift shorthand