If It's on the News...

You KNOW you’ve safely arrived in a City, when you find the best known work of their most humorous poet is entitled, “Ode To A Dead Child.”

Through a mix-up in this machine I was trying out, I recently found myself in the staggering midst of some sort of City poetry festival, and before I could extricate myself I heard the following from two gents who seemed to have been engaged in verbal combat: 

                      “Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake,

                        What a dear soufflé they would make.

                         English words and thoughts so dear,

                         Waitress, bring another beer.”

And in return this bard received:

                        “Many’s a poet who at this hour,

                          Spreads sad seeds and plows so dour.

                          Stand back folks and let her bloom,

                          No one’s getting out of this room.”

(I did not stay for the announcement of a victor.)

Unless you’re just wastefully determined to use high test in a lawn mower, always take the easy way out, (assuming, of course, that you can properly spot the ole grassy way).

P.S. - If it’s on the news it can’t be used.

J.