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[tanaise]

This is just to say
I have buried your cat
Which you left with me for the weekend
And which you were expecting to pick up on Monday.

Forgive me.
She was dead.
So stiff
and starting to smell funky."

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This is not to say
that poetry is a waste of time.
This is just to say that
I have written the novel
that probably you will say
is a major sell-out.

Forgive me.
It was so much fun, and
I needed the money.

Comments

This is just to say

[mendoza.livejournal.com]

Hee! I am eternally amused by WCW parodies and those were two I hadn't seen before. I also love the ones by Kenneth Koch, among them:

I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer.
I am sorry, but it was morning, and I had nothing to do and its wooden
beams were so inviting.

Re: This is just to say

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Well, there's a whole lot of them through the link, as it's a link to a guy noir skit with William Carlos Williams take offs. :)

[crowyhead.livejournal.com]

I once left a note for my dad in WCW form about drinking the last beer. He wasn't quite as amused as I thought he might be. Probably had something to do with the lack of beer.

I think there's an ARC of the Jane Austen Book Club lying around at work. Want me to grab it for you? It's been sitting on the pile for weeks, so probably no one else wants it.

[katallen.livejournal.com]

This is just to say
that you should have kept
a copy of your manuscript 'The Life of Thomas Crapper'
for it touched us in a way no other biography has

Forgive me.
It was paper.
And I was short of the
quilted kind.

See bad poet... bad bad poet :o)