I am sure I have never used irony, in all my history of posting sardonic ripostes here on the Cat. But if I were to do it I would try to do it with more grace than that cross-eyed oatmeal-headed namby-pamby half-wit. But I haven't, and I am not about to start now, since obviously good irony requires a much more subtle command of similarities and differences and nuance than I am blessed with.

I appreciate the irony, but I believe we need to make note of the fact that the author did not intend it--he literally believed (it seems to me) that he was offering poetry to his readers. If he had an inkling of its wretchedness he would have desisted.

Besides, I really LIKE my "Pox from Maine to Donegal" poem. I think its better than anything he wrote. :>))

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