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Unread 01-20-2011, 07:59 PM
Roger Slater Roger Slater is offline
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I had to look up what an agony aunt/uncle is, but the answer was easy enough to come by. But I'm afraid, John, that I don't catch your literary reference, though your poem still sounds like fun. I stayed more obvious and mainstream with my first foray:


"Dear Uncle Hamlet, Here's the thing:
My uncle killed my dad, the king.
The situation grows absurder.
Dad's ghost said, 'Avenge my murder!'
Yet killing uncles doesn't strike me
as something, well, exactly like me.
I'm not the rash, imprudent type.
I'm more the bookish, student type,
theatrical, a bit pedantic."

"For starters, friend, I'd say an antic
disposition buys you time,
but after that, I'm sorry, I'm
confused as well what you should do,
except, to thine own self be true.
Does that help you? Maybe not.
I'm sorry, though. That's all I've got."

Last edited by Roger Slater; 01-20-2011 at 08:04 PM.
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