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04-11-2013, 05:02 AM
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Speccie Palinode by 24th April
Yes they did a palinode before but it was different somehow.
No. 2795: Palinode
We’ve done this one before but it is worth repeating: you are invited to submit a palinode (a poem retracting a previously expressed opinion) on behalf of a well-known poet (16 lines maximum and please identify source). Please email entries, wherever possible, to lucy@spectator.co.uk
by midday on 24th April.
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04-11-2013, 05:40 AM
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(Thinks: what if I rewrote John's Lit Rev winner about Mrs Thatcher in order to give her a good bashing? Tee-hee!)
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04-11-2013, 07:55 AM
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Too long, Brian.
Come to think of it, it's not true the old dear didn't make anyone richer. She made me £300 richer.
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04-11-2013, 08:45 AM
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Reresumé
Columnists pain you,
Hypocrites vex;
They'll say you're insane, you
Enjoy too much sex;
They'll tar you with slander,
They'll gossip and lie;
I say in all candor,
You might as well die.
Last edited by Roger Slater; 04-11-2013 at 08:49 AM.
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04-11-2013, 09:24 AM
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This Is Just To Say
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
I wish that I
had not because
I now have
stomach ache.
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04-11-2013, 11:32 AM
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(Oh, well - yet another attempt at recycling.)
xxxxxxLarkin about
They fucked each other, Mum and Dad -
Yes, even then, some couples did -
And nine months later, what they had
Was me, a smiling, sunny kid.
Genetically, I can't complain:
I have ten fingers and ten toes,
Four limbs, a fairly decent brain -
Pity I’ve got my father’s nose.
They did their best, but time went by
The way it does; before you know it,
That infant from a lullaby
Grows up a grumpy, grouchy poet.
But they, poor souls, were not to blame;
My parents really can't have known
That I'd become what I became -
I fucked myself up on my own.
Last edited by Brian Allgar; 04-13-2013 at 06:38 AM.
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04-11-2013, 01:11 PM
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Williams
To a Poor Old Yeoman
sucking a thumb in
the field a filthy one
of them in his mouth
It tastes foul to him
It tastes foul
to him. It tastes
foul to him
You can see it by
the way he gives himself
to the filthy nail
still dark with dirt
Uncomforted
a cursing of raw thumbs
seeming to fill the field
It tastes foul to him
__________________
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04-11-2013, 02:00 PM
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More Williams
not as much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
as I thought
however
I stand by what I said
about chickens
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04-11-2013, 04:48 PM
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Retraction
April's not the cruelest month.
I said that while depressed.
The truth is quite the opposite.
It's actually the best,
the kindest, sweetest month of all.
It's not the least bit cruel.
Forgive me. Sometimes I am just
a cranky, pompous fool.
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04-11-2013, 05:33 PM
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To His No Longer Coy Mistress
Had I but world enough and time
I'd spend it taking back the rhyme
I wrote for purposes of urgin'
You to end your days as virgin.
I'd spend at least a year or two
Expressing my regrets to you,
And then a full millennium
Admitting I was rude and dumb,
For lady, you deserve no less,
Although, thank God, you told me yes.
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