[Duncan Gillies MacLaurin]

Alicia has just posted the start of a Canto of hers here. Wonderful stuff!

Duncan

PS Dear Mod, please correct my title!

[Rob Wright]

Thank you Duncan! Great work. Funny as well (darkly).

Title corrected.

RobW

[Quincy Lehr]

Not entirely sure about the punning ending--"Bull" for "bull$#!t has mythological resonance but loses the important explosive power of the actual swear word. But that's a quibble in a section of a poem that indicates a new, fruitful direction for Alicia.

[Andrew Frisardi]

The "Bull" at the end is a clever pun, imo, and added to the force of the ending.

I greatly enjoyed this, and could easily have gone on for more of it.

[Allen Tice]

This is much more clever than the law allows.

I luv it! Snarky, full of good stuff (like Porphyrius the Charioteer [he's only implicit, though]). La la. No need for imbecilic coprolalia.

[Quincy Lehr]

Originally Posted by Allen Tice

No need for imbecilic coprolalia.

I love a gratuitous insult in the afternoon!

[Bill Carpenter]

Great, Duncan, thanks. First-rate. Glad to see a long-time favorite in st. 6 -- though some on this site took offense.

[Janice D. Soderling]

Thanks for the shout-out, Duncan.

Love that docta puella.

[Chris O'Carroll]

"How bitter-sweet is/Poetry" indeed. This is masterful -- simultaneously comic and tragic, ancient and modern, foreign and domestic.

I'm persnickety enough to wonder aloud whether that delightful "occupation" joke would work in German and/or Greek. Of course, native speakers of those two languages might have only English in common, so maybe we should all just forget I mentioned it.

[Michael Cantor]

Just wonderful, all the way through. And thanks, Duncan, for the call-out.