The new campaign for poetry awareness, "Woo or Woe on the Go", must be one of the most admirable initiatives I've seen in years (screw you, helpless pandas and illiterate children). Mobile poetry addresses the serious, but nonexistent problem of poetry's loss of popularity through the decades due to its tragic inaccessibility and inconvenience in modern life. "Woo or Woe on the Go" makes the irrrefutable statement that poetry is not simply a foolish catalogue of blather featuring whiny wooers and woeful wimps. Doesn't the title make that clear to you, dull prose readers, damn it?Tuesday, April 15
April is National Poetry Month
The new campaign for poetry awareness, "Woo or Woe on the Go", must be one of the most admirable initiatives I've seen in years (screw you, helpless pandas and illiterate children). Mobile poetry addresses the serious, but nonexistent problem of poetry's loss of popularity through the decades due to its tragic inaccessibility and inconvenience in modern life. "Woo or Woe on the Go" makes the irrrefutable statement that poetry is not simply a foolish catalogue of blather featuring whiny wooers and woeful wimps. Doesn't the title make that clear to you, dull prose readers, damn it?
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And that's 95% of the problem in a nutshell (Don't you hate that phrase? I just used it, and I even hate it): Poets should be proud of writing foolish catalogues of blather. I know I am, and I say, "The more blather, the better!"
Always one to keep up with the latest trends, I would like to participate in "Woo or Woe on the Go" (what the ****??!?!?!?!)
Ahem...
There once was a blogger called Sylvia
... um.... okay, that ain't gonna work... stupid-ass non-rhyming name...
Ahem...
There was was a blogger called 'Syl' (work with me!)
Who had a case of 'itchy quill' (or not so much, sometimes!)
So now and again
She'd pick up a pen (keyboard, WHATEVA!)
And await a snide comment from Jill
Ta-Daaaa!
Oh, wait, that'll be Hallmark calling now...
Pretty good command of rhyme and meter, but did you have to tell everyone about my itchy quill condition?
spot the typo
ONCE was a blogger....
DUH!
"was was"
Whatevs!
You weren't taht far off, though.
The was was is an extremely elusive species of kangaroo mouse from the eastern Kalahari desert. It gets its name form the reply of a British prospector in the area, who, when asked if he had seen one, replied, "There was one around here just a minute ago. I know there was, wasn't there?"
Needless to say, Sylvia, who is relatively tall, graceful, and considerably less elusive, bears no resemblance to a kangaroo mouse.
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