There's a New Yorker for you. No sense of scale.P.S.: Did you mean Lake George or Lake Burley Griffin?
I think you stuck more closely to the original.A Poem About a Wife Filing for Divorce...
Once upon a midnight dreary,
While Joe was alcohol weary,
Susan strode to their bed in huff,
You drunken sod, I've had enough!
This pussy that you've liked before
Your cock shall enter, Nevermore!
But distinctly I remember,
How you said, you loved my member!
Cried out Joe rising from the bed,
Suddenly wishing he was dead!
But Susan's will was hard as stone
Glaring at him, and at his bone.
You think it's much, but there is more
These lips will blow you, Nevermore!
Edit: I realized only after I wrote and published it that Em had already done the same poem. I am claiming flu withdrawal.
Second hand discovery is a good thing, I'd say. Not everything printed, filmed, or videotaped is going to be immediately understood by everyone reading or viewing it. At least we don't have to use encyclopedias or atlases now.That's post facto second hand discovery, not first hand knowledge. There's a difference
Yes, true. It is a bit too far away.
That's why college mottoes are often in Latin. Maybe they also assume that the students won't bother to look it up. City College of New York: "Respice, Adspice, Prospice."
“That is, um, my Junior College class ring. Cum Laude, '69.”
I was Magna cum laude, not that it did me any good personally or professionally. So are you quoting one of your own stories or something else?
I know about it, but I haven't seen it yet. However, a few seconds of that scene are here:
I lived there for ten years, moved away in the eighties. Canberra appears in a lot of my writing, it's my "primal city", but I've not been back there for a long time.Yes, true. It is a bit too far away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_George_(New_South_Wales)
So you've admitted that you live near Canberra? I had already guessed that it probably wasn't Alice Springs. (Yes, I've known about that place since I was about twelve!) My stalker thread set off a wave of paranoia that even I'm feeling now. Thus maybe you shouldn't tell us.
How long does it take to sail from Massachusetts to the Indian Ocean? And I don't think they stop to dally with any ladies along the way. No wonder Ahab went crazy. They all should have lost their minds by that point.
They had each other.
In a slightly different context, Winston Churchill is alleged to have said that the Royal Navy was held together by "rum, sodomy, and the lash." He wasn't mincing his words.
Indeed. During my flu haze I skimmed through your poem and I never realized what the original was. Although, the first and last verse should have been an obvious tell. I like your version better anyway
One of the advantages of long walks in the countryside is that they give me plenty of opportunity to dream up the kind of prurient nonsense toward which my addled mind has a natural inclination.
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