Ok, Patio.
Gotcha. Some poet did a parody on Dickens (I think) ...I can remember on this line:
You can have your(something)
and your Mr. Pickwick,
Quite frankly,
They make me sickwick.
Nash, again, I believe.
Much concision
In Ogden.
Long and rash things
Were not Nash things.
Well - my intro poem IS a pale copy of someone - but prolly so bad as to be unidentifiable - especially as I have broken up the lines of his couplets!
My second is, indeed, a copy of Nash - and my third a sad copy of Parker.
Gorblimey, this cuts close to bein' hard,
But I fink yer first pome smells like the bard;
So, wot the 'ell ... ain't nuffin' much to fear
In plunkin' down a shillin' on Shaiks-peer.
Debacle!
I thought the first was Poe...
I'm having a heckuva time being neither too obvious ("'Twas swilling and the mouthy blokes...") nor obscure.
I'd risk a farthing more on old Kit Marlowe.
(An end effiminate he had on him.)
And now, a post in the style of Marcel Marceau.
.....
The rabbit left its hole and wended its way towards the web site known as a2k, continued on its way in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Posts of the last 24 hours, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Forum Guide, went in under the closed door, crossed through the Adminstrator's room, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to thread called irony and declared itself home and dry.
'Twas poor Pope - but since, as I said, I broke his line rules, 'twas doubtless unidentifiable - might as well have been Colley Cibber, his contemporary and a notorious poetaster, about whom he wrote many a satire!
But - who is Hiama? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....
Patio - your Marceau is wonderful.....but who is your poet?
Soze - YES! Obvious or obscure.....one walks a fine line - not to mentin that, in my case, the spirit is willing, but the pen is weak...
Deb Clue- try south america
Lord - I know not enough South American writers!!!
Allende? It cannot be Borges...waaaaaaah!!!!!
Puig? I am just bumping me gums together!
Too soon are coming tasbooks and grendly, tumbely toste and bible bee, with jaggery-yo to juju-jaw, and what
happened to our seven in thirtytwo antepostdating replies in Patio dog's quest and why is Kraven where is he and what are the sound waves saying deceased ere they all swayed wrong and Dlowan anguished axes Hiama .....
Sozobe-Spot on-good on ya- try the next one
Youse too good de both of yus ( original hiama don't panic)
