From my niece Rachel comes this inspired bit of silliness: an English professor couldn't find the departmental handtruck, so he put out a request on the local listserv. In response, he got 12 odes to the missing handtruck, done in the style of William Carlos Williams, John Donne, and other famous poets. I particularly like this one, by Carl Rapp.
This Is Just to Say
I have pinched
the hand truck
that I happened to run across in
a convenient location
and which
you were probably
saving
for your own future toils
Forgive me
it was so “dependable”
so red
and so obviously up for grabs
Can't you just hear Garrison Keillor reciting it?
I would be interested in your thoughts on this article:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/magazine/04evolution.t.html
Sounds like fodder for another blog post, anonymous!
ReplyDeleteLost hand truck
ReplyDeleteIs bad luck
But mimic
Is comic.
Sorry, best I could do at short notice.
It stood alone
ReplyDeleteA peak in search space
Amid the lone and level sands
It was no accident
Mine all mine
Jeff: sounds akin to the prose of Ken Salem's beer-zonker's mailing list ;)
ReplyDeleteAnonymous: nice link, even if long winded. I am curious about the statement “I started looking at history, and I wondered why no society ever survived more than three generations without a religious foundation as its raison d’être (...)” (page 3) though: I wonder how you define scientifically la "raison d'etre" of a society to be religious or no without getting trivial results (all or none).