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High School POETRY. You are evil, Tim.
 

You can clearly see from the High School poetry entrie why Ian became an artist and I became a scientist researching non-lethal weaponery.
 

It seems timely to quote Mr Wilde, who said "All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."
For more Wilde wit:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/o/oscar_wilde.html

That said, I actually like Ian and Liza's poems.

(In our fall cleaning, I also found my journals/poetry/sophomoric musings/etc.; you shan't be seeing any of that, I'm pleased to say.)
 

Tim-

BITE ME

-Ian
 

Perhaps my sensitive, jr year abroad, Oberlin-inspired verse will be published posthumously as a sick joke by my wife. Then you can dance on my grave (no spitting).

Finding it was almost as unpleasant as a Ty McGary "ozzie".

btw, it's a small point, but lines 3 and 4 scan sort of choppy.
 

oh wait, I've written a new poem. It's really beautiful:


Bla, bla bla bla bla Tim.
yada yada yada yada bite me.
 

Tim I see Meredith had you cleaning out both your basement AND your attic over the holiday weekend. Must have been too rainy to mow, huh?
 

I think people biting other people would be a real step up on this blog. Can we watch?
 

That's funny Kim- it reminds me of a song I heard on the radio the other day- it was really quite a lovely song- it went something like this:

Yes Tim, I would like to say this more clearly,
What I want is for you to bite me.

yeah, doesn't scan well- also has a feminine ending.
 

I'm confused by one thing. Okay, I'm confused by a lot of things, but this one in particular. Who is the girl in the orange?
 

It scans better, as does most petambic hexameter, with a west coast rather than an east coast hiphop beat. But I still prefer the Neil Diamond version best.
 

Grace+/-eee
 

Captured literally as it happened. Too bad the Irish cockney street poet is trying to draw the audience's eye.

Hey, isn't that pubkeep one of the famous Hoffamn acting clan?
 

Actually I never noticed the directorial brilliance before. First, he put Wonsuck in the center of all the Teahouse of the August Moon set pieces for authenticity and here he puts two Irish boys-- Gallagher and Purdy-- right in the center line. (Too bad he had to cast an Italian and a half Jew as the Doolittles.)

No wonder the Black Lick Patriot Gazette raved about the show.
 

We didn't need to be authentic, Tim. We ... ACTED!!
 

Which reminds me a some Tabish Wisdom: Children are not small adults, but some pediatric surgeons are.
 

I got about as much Irish blood in me as Pino.