Book Club Rhymes - 2006 edition
The 2006 edition breathed a bit of life into this event: with very little
notice, several members rose to the occasion and came up with the following
specimens — including
some very creative interpretations of the haiku and limerick forms...
My Family and Other Animals (Gerald Durrell) |
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While reading Durrell one day
My wife was compelled to say
"This spoiled British twit
Is a bit of a shit.
Those animals had best stay away!" - Fred
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So What (John Szwed) |
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John Szwed wrote the book Kind of Blue [sic]
About a famous trumpeter who blew
Third stream and bebop,
Cool, abstract & hard bop,
And invented jazz fusion too! - Nou
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Justine (Lawrence Durrell) |
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Take a nymphomaniac named Justine
Who has sympathies pro-Palestine;
Distill a sextet
Down to a quartet
Depicting life Alexandrine. - Jean and Michael
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The Magus (John Fowles) |
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A tome called The Magus was Fowle
There were too many self-absorbed twits
Where the protag was smitten
His interest was bitten
But ours came apart in the bits. - Sarah
Lizards, turtles, Greeks
Dig deeply English chaos
Fiery sun dingy - Sarah
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January 5, 2004
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