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This is a total goof. I wrote a few poems like this about four or five years ago. They are just absurd and mean nothing at all. I still laugh at them -- but I have a slant sense of humor...

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“Why, Lord Vestibule!  How utterly to

See you!  It’s been an iota since we met

Last!  Why, hath it been e’en a minute yet?”

“Nay, equestrian-of-lowly-birth, you

Must be ballooned; we have never met -- that’s ‘mew.’”

Ah, then, so sayeth my flat feline -- the Burmese...

...Or is it the Manx...”  “Mere de-tails, mere...  GET

OUT! and OFF WITH THINE HEAD! -- (or heads hast thou two) -- “

“And my crime, Sire?”  “Thou hast rhymed 'Burmese' with 'yet!' --

-- Perforce to force an 'yet' into our sonnet’s sestet -- “

“But m’lord hath done tripe: to rhyme yet herewith sestet --

As if this mere tercet -- when an ear would to hear

Quite else!” -- “What then, O bearded-bard-of-apish-sneer?”

“Repair!  Ne’er despair... there, there...  Wouldst don thy  brassiere?” 

Reviews

[John]

A wild parody of the vocabulary and diction of Elizabethan English. A dialogue in sonnet form between two gentleman animals in deranged verbal combat that reminds me of Lewis Carroll's nonsense verse, but is a lot wilder. It is humorous and entertaining but at the same time a little unsettling.

[Firestone Feinberg]

I have never shown anyone any of these poems. I thought I would post one here to see the reaction. I am glad that you gave this poem an honest review. I get a better understanding of its strangeness and I can understand my hesitancy to let others read such poems before. They are Outside. Thanks, John.

[John]

No, I like the strangeness and the unsettlenessness of this piece. The best poems are not always a comfortable fit.

[Firestone Feinberg]

Oh! What hast thou -- an cucumber -- we are poisoned and welcome your courtesy, snake-one.

[John]

Glad to hear!

[Ed Hart]

i started smiling with the first line, and my smile just got bigger and bigger

[Firestone Feinberg]

So glad you like. Maybe will post another of these. Think I wrote about three. They were easy to write -- then -- but I figured they were too wild for public consumption Your review is a support and I learn from you. --David.

[char]

You're Lewis Carroll!!!! I knew it!!!! :D

[Firestone Feinberg]

I always loved Alice in Wonderland -- still one of my favorites. Thanks for your exuberant review, and be well! -- David

[jacob erin-cilberto]

total fun chaos.

[Firestone Feinberg]

REALLY glad you liked it. Was afraid it was just too peculiar. You words helped me to learn something about myself! Thank you. --David