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Friday, February 18, 2005

A Parody of
Ars Poetica
(left in comments but too good too hide there)
offered by Madam Nichon


A poem may boast bravado
Like a muted avocado

Shreik
Like old razor blades to the cheek

Respond like the moss-grown casements
Of flooded basements

But a poem to be audible
Must be inaudible

***
A poem should be hushed
As a bowl of mush

Leaving as the mush is swallowed
Mouthful by mouthful the spoon-entangled hollow

Leaving as the mush goes down
Memories of the lack of sound

A poem should be hushed
As a bowl of mush

***
A poem like a proper child
Should not be wild

Should clean its face
Should not mean all over the place

Should not be particularly present, should avoid
The regions of Cupid

Should be
A little bit stupid

-- Alan Ribback

13 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I like this one better than the one by McLeish.

3:36 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who goes with Fergel?

"And now at last you wear a human shape,

A thin grey man half lost in gathering night.."

-- W.B. Yeats

3:55 PM  
Blogger mary bishop said...

"An old slave grinding at a heavy quern,/A king sitting upon a chair of gold"

At first I thought "quern" was a typo and it really was a "queen" who was getting the grinding!

Welcome surfergal and Madam - is it true that every surfergal needs a madam?

4:02 PM  
Blogger Irina Tsukerman said...

That's a pretty good parody, I'd say! : )

6:48 PM  
Blogger Bybee said...

Hi Mary Bishop! I like your blog! You rock!

11:41 PM  
Blogger mary bishop said...

HI bybee - welcome to my blog. Glad you like it!

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