So-and-so (September)

Philip Hodgins titled a poem ‘So-and-so’s Famous Poem’. He was coming to terms with the anonymity of creation, that it’s the work not the name survives, when it does. Gore Vidal was a right so-and-so who knew that in one hundred years it won’t matter who wrote what. All names resolve into their products of time, so William Blake said. So! Isn’t poetry itself a case of so-and-so, our arduous efforts at symbolising September so many vague conjunctions going so, and so? Shake-and-speare is a So-and-so poet, following this thinking, giving names to those now forgotten, so so many so-and-so’s.