Once upon a midnight dreary,
While I pondered weak and weary,
Came a crashing at my door.
“Oh no!” I cried, “Here comes The Bore™!”
Always talking, never stops,
Eats brewer’s yeast, sniff at hops.
Talks of subjects no one cares.
Eats bunny rabbits, calls them “Hares”
Blows his nose with out a tissue,
Always says, “I’m gonna get you!”
When near the girls, he thinks he’s bad,
But they can see he’s just a cad.
I let him in, what could I do?
He said he really had to poo.
Thru the door he came inside;
None to swift, I tried to hide.
He found me face down in the loo,
Wandered in and taunted, “Boo!”
I screamed, “I’m fed up with your pranks!
The world would owe me many thanks,
If I shot you in the head,
And then the Police called you dead.
But I will spare you this one time.
Be glad that you’re a freind of mine.”
Quothe the Raven, “Nevermore.”
Alarmed, I looked out to the night,
Where I beheld an awesome sight.
A thousand sheep landing on my porch,
Each one with a lighted torch.
As I turned, I thought I saw
A script discarded, reading “Caw.”
I asked the Crow, “How dost thou speak?”
Replied he, “With an open beak.”
“Are these your sheep you lead amiss?”
When he answered, he had a lisp,
“Yeth, the theep are mine, you fool!
We’vthe come to uthe your thwimming pool.”
At that statement, I got pissed.
If only the Bore my house had missed!
In anger I attacked The Bore™
And threw him through an open door.
I threw them all into the night.
(My anger is an awesome sight!)
Tell me now, Do you I bore?
Quothe The Doper, “None the more!”
You should be flogged mercilessly for mocking the greatest poem ever but it made me giggle so I’ll let you live.
Thou art merciful and kind.
Excuse me while I marry my underage cousin.
Poor Poe. He had quite a life, didn’t he? But, I ate his stuff up in school.
So long as you didn’t steal his brandy, too.
Parody/Takeoffs are nice and all, but I thought your last one a fair bit better. Let’s see some more original work from ya, mate.
[sub]Though I admit this one was pretty cleverly done.[/sub]
Well, I’ve got notebooks full of originals…
The majority of them are not humorous, and some of them just aren’t very good.
I’ll pick out a couple for next week (unless a brand new one comes to mind).
This looks vaguely familiar. Can’t think where I read it before. Another place, another time… another thread…
Very nice, btw.
Yeah, after being inspired in Viva’s thread, I decided to give it a life of its own, outside of Trek. Good thing, too. I needed Skeezix’s (or someone’s like his) opinion.
I shall aspire to greatness.
Next week.
An opinion held by damn near every writer, poetry or prose, of his own work. You might be surprised by others’ reactions to your stuff, but only if ye let some others see it, first.
[sub]So says the man with two potential novels, and a double handful of short stories, that he can’t work up the enthusiasm to do much work on, 'cause he’s pretty sure they suck.[/sub]
NCB, you perspire [;)] to greatness. And you have achieved it.