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    Humorous Poetry Parodies & Even Verse
    Humorous Poetry Parodies & Even Verse
    Humorous Poetry Parodies & Even Verse
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    Humorous Poetry Parodies & Even Verse

    By Vincent Miskell

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    This book of funny and clever parodies will have you laughing, smiling, and nodding your head. It pokes fun at Whitman with "I Sing the Body Bubonic," at Poe with "The Raving," at Dante with "Declined Comedy," at Coleridge with "Rime of the Ancient Maintenance Man,"—and at Emily Dickinson, Shelley, Frost, Donne, Wordsworth, e.e. cummings, Robert Service, and Blake.

    Here's the beginning of "The Androyd" (after Blake);

    The Androyd

    Androyd, Androyd, lasered bright
    Through the vacuum of the night,
    What impossible pedigree
    Could ruin your immortality?

    From what distant ooze or thighs
    Burned the fire from your eyes?
    With what neuron did it conspire
    To crush you with celestial fire?

    And what sympathy and which art
    Could slay you for your lack of heart?
    Then as your parts dispersed in space
    Did a smile stretch on its face?
    . . . .

    Other comic verse breaks between the parodies such as "Starbucks":

    Starbucks

    Caffeine
    line up
    shuffle lean
    order cup
    hissing machine
    debit habit
    inside slurp
    bolt like rabbit
    outside burp.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVincent Miskell
    Release dateOct 21, 2011
    ISBN9781466106062
    Humorous Poetry Parodies & Even Verse
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    Vincent Miskell

    Vincent Miskell is a college instructor, a writer, and a poet. He is the co-author (along with his wife Jane) of OVERCOMING ANXIETY AT WORK and MOTIVATION AT WORK. His short fiction has appeared in ROSEBUD, INTERTEXT, ECLIPSE, and in the SF paperback anthology, the AGE OF WONDER. His poetry has appeared in THE LYRIC, POETIC VOICES OF AMERICA, and MOBIUS. In 2006, his poem "Screen Savior" was nominated for a Rhysling Award and his poems have been published in ASIMOV'S SF mag (Sept. and Oct./Nov. 2006 and March 2010). His poem, "Seven Dates with a Time Traveler," appeared online in the May 2007 issue of FROM THE ASYLUM. "Giving the World Away for Almost You" appeared in the December 2010 issue of AOIFE'S KISS. "Godspeed Inc," a novelette, begins the Naomi Kinder SF adventure series, which continues in the full-length novel, RESCUING THE FUTURE. Two more novels in the series are in the works.

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