Two would have been greedy. I must say it's just as well the magazine editors over here are too posh and idle to go a-googling. But it wasn't just Pope. Marlowe stole great lumps of Spenser. I think it was Eliot who pointed it out. I've just been working on a poem called 'Fatso in the Red Suit'. Great title, huh? I pinched it from Matthew Sweeney.
Google this one if you can.
News Headlines
Kent dinner ladies set to get the chop,
Wallasey man escapes by a hare’s breath,
Seventeen times Cassandra cheated death,
Posh outburst catches hubby on the hop,
Judge opts for hanging on a one-off basis,
Prince William pops the question in his braces.
[This message has been edited by John Whitworth (edited August 01, 2008).]
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