On a different note, I wonder whose voice you'd lend to your poems. Anyone game to post your own verse letter.
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Dear Morgan Freeman,
read my poems, please lend your mellow voice to smooth my wrinkled meter and disguise my awful choice of words that fill the pages. When I read they sound pathetic, but you could read a shopping list and make it sound poetic!
I go to see your movies just to hear your southern drawl. I loved "Shawshank Redemption," it’s my favorite one of all. I try to imitate your voice’s pitch and intonation. All I get is laryngitis from my screaming in frustration.
I’m sending you this package in hope that you’ll record your voice on the cassette I sent with what I could afford to pay for your kind services, it’s all that I can spare. I hope twenty bucks will do. (The check is good, I swear!)
The poems are alphabetical. (there should be 34) And when you’re finished with this batch I’ll send you 30 more. You know I have a deadline, so you’ll have to start tonight! Make sure that when you read them that you set the volume right.
Return the package right away, as soon as you are through. I’m running out of time because there is so much to do. I need to practice lip-syncing to match the way you speak, so I can win the contest at the Reading Room next week.
I plan to read my favorite poem, the one I’ve titled “Lotus.” And if I practice hard enough, I’m sure no one will notice that my physical appearance doesn’t match my voice at all. I’m female, white and little, but you’re male and black and tall.
So thank you Mr. Freeman for the prize you’ll help me get.
Sincerely,
Your devoted fan (and poet!)
Lori Yette
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