(thing) by fustflum Tue Jun 06 2000 at 5:26:33 

Fame is a fickle food

Upon a shifting plate

Whose table once a

Guest but not

The second time is set.


Whose crumbs the crows inspect

And with ironic caw

Flap past it to the Famer's Corn--

Men eat of it and die.



--Emily Dickinson
I like it!