Ah yes, the form is evolving. I too wondered how long it would take before someone rebelled and gave us the Shakespearean snelsonnet. But
Jim has taken things a step further and got us down to tet (and now, with
John W.'s latest, tri). At this rate, we'll be back talking baby-talk before we know it:
Gay Adoption
In-
de-
ci-
sion.
Pa-
pa?
(
Mary M.: I'm looking forward to the grrls' version!) Anyway, here's my new challenge. I'm upping the ante: if anyone can give us a
one-worder (six syllables!) complete with correct "continental" rhyme scheme (think ABBA!) and convincing turn at the couplet, I will post video footage of me eating the hat of your choice. That
smack! you just heard was the gauntlet hitting the floor.
*
Frank: Funny you should go that route. When I was brainstorming ideas for my first snel, I also contemplated the fate of an unlucky four-footed friend. I even wrote a first line,
You're strewn across the road now, guts and glory,
with the intention of following up with rabbit, habit and story. (I didn't get as far ahead in my plans as the couplet. No idea how I'd have ended it.) But then I wound up going for butterflies instead. Anyway, interesting coincidence, that. Something in the form, perhaps, that suggests road kill?
Janet: :-þ
Jan: My, what curiously musical prose you write! (Merril Moore sounds like a perfectly terrifying individual.) By the way, I agree completely.
John: I am reminded of Kenneth Mars as Franz Liebkind in the original film of The Producers, raving about the injustice of it all: "Not many people know this, but the Fuhrer was a
terrific dancer . . . He had more hair than Churchill, he told funnier jokes than Churchill, and he could dance the PANTS off of Churchill! CHRRRRchill!"
Hey, whaddaya know. Seek and ye shall find:
The Magic of Youtube
(The Churchill soliloquy starts about 7:30 if you want to skip ahead. Enjoy.)
Janice: Damn, now I feel bad. It's a good thing you can touch type, though, eh? (Glad you liked it.)
Keep 'em coming folks!
Steve C.
p.s. Yes, I know. Some of you might complain that "in- and -sion" is slant rhyme. But it ain't. Honest Injun.