adventures in bad poetry

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[ethelmay]

Wilhelmina Stitch wasn't even her real name. She chose that clunker. (Her given name was Ruth Jacobs, later married names Cohen and Collie.) I must agree with Miss Lydgate: "Slipshod, showy, and catchpenny. I am really ashamed of her ... But I believe, poor thing, she [was] very hard up.”

[sovay]

(Her given name was Ruth Jacobs, later married names Cohen and Collie.)

NOTHING WAS WRONG WITH THAT NAME.

LOTS OF THINGS ARE WRONG WITH THE OTHER ONE.

[ethelmay]

"Hello, I promulgate Christian-ish toshy verse, because I am totally not the granddaughter of the Chazan of the Great Synagogue of London, why would you think that..."

[sovay]

"Hello, I promulgate Christian-ish toshy verse, because I am totally not the granddaughter of the Chazan of the Great Synagogue of London, why would you think that..."

I flashed on one of my favorite exchanges from Sesame Street, the one that took years to click into place for me:

"I am the Count. They call me the Count because I love to count things!"

"Wonderful! Well, I'm Guy Smiley. They call me Guy Smiley because I changed my name from Bernie Liederkrantz!"

[mrissa]

Oh my, she said faintly.

John Julius Norwich: the gossip of Byzantine history, bless him. But that. That was a bridge too far.

[sovay]

Hush! Lady Baby's fast asleep, the friendly fire-flames dance and leap and angel's wings above her sweep as on her eyes a kiss they press.

No.

[rosefox]

My face did the thing Ruth's face did, I think.

Lady Baby

[amaebi]

*sob* So true! So profound! So moving!