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A Person From Porlock

from Soak Up The Gravy by emperor penguin

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The person from Porlock was an unwelcome visitor to Samuel Taylor Coleridge during his composition of the poem Kubla Khan in 1797. Coleridge claimed to have perceived the entire course of the poem in a dream (possibly an opium-induced haze), but was interrupted by this visitor from Porlock while in the process of writing it. Kubla Khan, only 54 lines long, was never completed. Thus "person from Porlock", "man from Porlock", or just "Porlock" are literary allusions to unwanted intruders who disrupt inspired creativity.

Stevie Smith wrote a poem about this: Thoughts about the Person from Porlock

Coleridge received the Person from Porlock
And ever after called him a curse,
Then why did he hurry to let him in?
He could have hid in the house.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46848/thoughts-about-the-person-from-porlock

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There is a house of pleasure with a Dragon in the Hall
On sixteen miles of fertile land enclosed within a wall
Adrift in clouds of opium reflected in a stream
A man from Porlock came to call and wiped away your dream

Mr Schubert’s symphony we call it number eight
Was dealt a heavy beating by the fickle hand of fate
A break in concentration and the nasty French Disease
What would number forty seven say to number three?

You can’t always finish what you started
You can’t always make it to the end
A stone gets thrown into the pool and on reflection who can see the fool?

Like all tomorrow’s parties this one’s speeding to an end
You talked for half an hour and you thought you’d made a friend
The enemy of promise is a beast of chase and game
Drinking from a pleasant fountain, failed to catch her name

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from Soak Up The Gravy, released January 10, 2020

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