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Friday, 24 February 2012

Poetic 'Terlude - Something that 'Spired Me

I just membered this, went off and looked it up then came back and posted it here for you joyment:

I know a little man both ept and ert.
An intro-? extro-? No, he's just a vert.
Sheveled and couth and kempt, pecunious, ane,
His image trudes upon the ceptive brain.

When life turns sipid and the mind is traught,
The spirit soars as I would sist it ought.
Chalantly then, like any gainly goof,
My digent self is sertive, choate, loof.

Gloss, by David McCord
from 'The Oxford Book of American Light Verse'

Tags: Fun, David McCord, dropped aitches ain't everything

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Posted on 02/24/2012 7:38 PM by John M Joyce

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24 Feb 2012
Hugh Fitzgerald

David McCord? In Sight Of Sever? This is getting close to home. Who will appear here next? Walter Muir Whitehill?

24 Feb 2012

John MJ

My odd posts are no Essays from Harvard but one, truly, never does know who might appear at NER next so, as dear David McCord, may he rest in peace, would have known only too, too well:

Quapropter sciendum, quod sancti'Jacobi peregrini, sive
pauperes sive divites, jure sunt recipiendi, et diligenter pro-curandi.

24 Feb 2012

John MJ

The Latin quote, of course and for those of you who don't know, is from Whitehill's great work of transcription of the Codex Calixtinus and translates roughly as follows:

Which is why it should be known, that peregrinos [pilgrims] of Santiago, poor or wealthy, in justice should be taken in, and diligently attended to. (Book 1, 'The Pilgrims Guide', Chapter XI.)

25 Feb 2012

reactionry

Diss England, Dis Phoria

Please allow me to face my marks by saying that the poem left me thoroughly gruntled.

Tags: no mental fricatives, dis, dem, der, dose, "I never diss," drill sargeant: what is your function, numbnuts? busing propisms

25 Feb 2012

Mary Jackson

Seems a bit mantled together if you ask me.

25 Feb 2012

reactionry

A New York Yankee In King Arthur's Court

Whilst on the road I was sometimes mantled together with Mickey.

Frigging In The Rigging Of The Infield Fly Rule,

Roger "The Cabin Boy" Maris

Tags: Babe Ruth, "The Sultan of Swat," Mickey Mantle, Spavinaw, Oklahoma, Roger Maris, Hibbing Minnesota, The House that Ruth built amid the alien cornporne, Humbert "Humbert" Wolfe, Earle Combs, Mark Koenig, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Bob Meusel and Tony Lazzeri. All of them a row of murderers, plenty even for Housman's verse

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