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odditycollector ([personal profile] odditycollector) wrote2004-01-19 07:22 pm

In the Tradition of Bad Victorian Poetry

 
[livejournal.com profile] daegaer writes, The world is a poorer place now that no one serenades cheese!

It's just so true.

And thus...





On the table, the colour of a fresh orange rind:
A block of cheese some inches thick,
and if one would measure, one might find
it roughly the shape and weight of a brick
(but much more edible, in my opinion).

Cheese! A better snack than fruit with mead;
there is no worry of choking on a pit.
And more polite than a loaf of hardened bread,
for it makes no sound when you cut it.
(and ever more satisfying than a meal of pinions.)

You may keep your chicken and mashed peas!
I think I would be rather pleased
to eat naught but that in front of me:
A fair slab of well aged cheese;
A goodly slab of well aged cheese.

For there is nothing quite so good as cheese.


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*bowes*
Thank you, thank you. You’re too kind.

[identity profile] odditycollector.livejournal.com 2004-01-20 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
:D
Now all I need is an Ode to the Sewers, and then maybe I too can be a famous poet!