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Poetry amusement
Dec. 7th, 2005 11:27 pm*snigger* I hadn't seen this before, spotted it on a comment over at bear's: http://www.yarnivore.com/francis/Holy_Tango.htm
Parodies of poetry with titles based on anagrams of the author's names.
"Toilets", by T.S. Eliot, for example.
I'm extra amused because there's a spoof of one of my all time fave poems, now titled "I Will Alarm Islamic Owls", by William Carlos Williams. Cold plums may have to take the backseat for a while.
Someone buy me the print version, sometime. It'd be a hoot.
[reads further]
the Oscar Wilde:
"For a man to excel in both mathematics and geography is quite intolerable. It bespeaks a promiscuous nature."
Why, look, a story idea! From "ERROL FLYNN’S NOT DEAD". Hey, thanks!
Parodies of poetry with titles based on anagrams of the author's names.
"Toilets", by T.S. Eliot, for example.
I'm extra amused because there's a spoof of one of my all time fave poems, now titled "I Will Alarm Islamic Owls", by William Carlos Williams. Cold plums may have to take the backseat for a while.
Someone buy me the print version, sometime. It'd be a hoot.
[reads further]
the Oscar Wilde:
"For a man to excel in both mathematics and geography is quite intolerable. It bespeaks a promiscuous nature."
Why, look, a story idea! From "ERROL FLYNN’S NOT DEAD". Hey, thanks!