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The person who writes about dead guys passed away today
There is little else that we can say
He started every sentence with Mister-
So we brought in someone fired by Twisted Sister.
She says the guy who rudely called in-
Complaining about the grammar school to which he'd been
Is surely going to rot well in (Ex. Del.)
She's examined the column overly,
And cannot a person whose compalint worthy,
Laws of grammar go ignored
Much like this poem, but not quite a bore.
Nor does she see that they can write,
Surly they see the letter writer's plight
To have their opinions surplanted,
By people saying "MY idea is..." (not even planted.)
What right do they have complain-
While the true letter writers go insane
Seeing dingbats express public thought
When they actually a stamp had bought.
For evolution's sake this call in people should
give up breathing
(A sentence which bears repeating.)
Instead of taking up the phone to talk,
They should probably go out for a walk.
Leaving the real commentary to those they fell know how-
If you've signed your name to such letter take a bow.
For they do not write in anonymity,
Perhaps this is a reason for the brave ones' hostility.
This was "inspired", if indeed, that is the proper word for this, by
someone calling in to a stupid column in our local paper complaining about
the obituarary writer's starting every paragraph with Mister or Mrs., and
suggesting they be more creative.
Judging by the general grammar rules that are followed (more are
ignoredthan even I could do delibrately), most of these people have no
right to
complain.
21 responses total.
(why not post it in poetry?)
I do not feel like joning a new conference.
The usual thing to do is have it linked to another appropriate cf.
(gee gosh golly, I cold link it to poetry...being the fairwitness and all but i'm lazy you know)
(tis done)
She how moody she is... one minute she's lazy, the next she can be something totally different. <robert kisses jenna sweetly> :)
Right on, this is neat. (=
(actually I just trial and errored until I figured out how to link items)
Well, she can feel free to pick on my laziness since she's probably still upset about the spelling thing, but I do not consider myself a great poet (look at the rhythym and meter, they are not at all consistent) and prefer to stick to prose, unfortunately, there is nothing to post here for me right now.
(I didn't care about the spelling thing, except that you said nohing else about the piece)
Was it the vampire thing? I do not care much for Vampires, and become sickened when I hear people raving about Anne Rice..., I'd much rather read the good works by other authors in the section her books are misapropriately placed in. (Such as Clarke.)
Kindly disregard the last entry.
Why? I don't like Anne Rice either. Wordy. Much better movie. no long descriptive passages. I don't remember if it was vampyres or soemthing else, sci fi, realistic fiction, jsut plain strange. Don't recall.
The only Anne Rice book I liked was "The Mummy or Rames the Damned" it sort of departs from her usual style. I don't know... I read it a few years ago.
I'll take Science Fiction any day, personally.
OOps...I didn't mean to respond, but so will I, for that matter
Amen to that, but (and prehaps I should be a bit more discriminating in my reading tastes) I generally read anything with print that I can understand, but I do much perfer Sci Fi.
Perhaps I should enter some more of my stuff here. I have been bereft
of ideas for short stories lately, though.
I keep forgetting this item is in the poetry conference also. So much
for the image of the mighty Roman Emperor I stole my login name from.
;} it's okay
Just a sid e not I should not have ended that one sentence with "also", and I should have completed the thought in the second...
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