Friday, March 30, 2007

For Giggles

Poetic Boxing
Donne is done and Frost is gone
Wordsworth had no clue

Dickinson had vague ideas
that Poe only knew.
Shakespeare thought he had them cornered
And that Keats was no true man
Along came Plath to share her horrors
and Longfellow made his stand.
Silently Whitman crept
Up toward Bishop’s head
And all the poets fell aghast
when Hughes announced "We’re Dead."