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Showing posts with label Eve Merriam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eve Merriam. Show all posts
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Bookstore:Chortles by Eve Merriam
A collection of humorous wordplay poems by the late, great Eve Merriam, such as "Mr. Zoo," who is described, among other things, as, "a 'sniffing newshound' who 'ferrets out secrets'", "a 'bear for work'", and "a 'mulish, busy bee'", "Cacophony," in which a gabage truck's goings-on are illustrated with such terms as, "Goopidy guck, grabbid slee", "Resolution," in which the speaker's mind is described as, " a hodgepodge of ragtag that's tangled pell-mell", "The Egotistical Orchestra," where a bass boasts, "I'm the ace", and a piano brags, "I'm both upright and grand"(Groan), and the Spooner-ific "Sappy Heasons" ("In the skue-bly sprays of ding when yaffodils are dellow...") If you like wacky poems, this is the book for you!
Here are a couple of my favorites:
Where's Spongebob?
This one's pretty hard to beat.
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