The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #37458 Message #2615876
Posted By: Bill D
21-Apr-09 - 05:04 PM
Thread Name: Really Really Important Poem
Subject: RE: Really Really Important Poem
(pedant alert!)
The Dorothy Parker poem has been posted twice, 8 years apart, and still not gotten precisely.
Ahem:
"I'd rather fail my Wasserman test
Than read a poem by Edgar Guest." (no 'A'...it ruins the scansion)
(/pedant)
Why pedantry? Because...ummmm... mere memory can fail, and the durned WWW/internet leads to C&P proliferation of slight differences from the original.
(Now, I have different versions of some items above, but there is often no known author and thus no one 'authentic' version.)
I learned Dick Greenhaus' poem about bees as:
"The bee is such a busy soul,
He has no time for birth control.
And that is why, in times like these,
There are so many Sons of B's"
Scholars bicker......