Here’s a fun poem for you: A Cautionary Verse by Canadian poet Dennis Lee.
I hope you’ll enjoy it for the same reason it appeals to me: the way Lee plays with language (which, at least here in Canada, is legendary).
I’m also hoping that it will qualify as “fresh” to you, because it’s by a poet whose work might not be familiar to you. And even though it was written in 1999, it’s labelled “unpublished” – so even if you know Lee from, say, Alligator Pie (a children’s classic, and probably his best-known poem), you probably won’t have come across this one.
Hope you have a super day, and may the coming year bring delights beyond measure.
Jul 04, 08:39AM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments
Just mind you don’t make what my grandmother would have called “enough noise to wake the dead.”
They might not leave you any birthday cake.
P.S. I tried three times to attach a great .jpg of zombies eating a birthday cake, but 43T keeps telling me that my file “is not a recognized image type.”
P.P.S. If you’re looking for a good way to spend some birthday money, I can recommend Pontypool Changes Everything, a terrific novel about a small town plagued with zombie-like behaviour that’s spread by certain words. I met the author at a recent conference, where he discussed both the book and the screenplay he wrote for Bruce McDonald’s 2008 film adaptation of it. The film took my breath away with its combination of riveting suspense and multiple layers of meaning. The novel is very different from the movie – it’s much more graphic, and the setting ranges more widely than the deliberately claustrophobic film – but fascinating in its own right.
Jul 03, 04:23PM PDT | 3 cheers | 3 comments
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