| here in this house we are content to rule ourselves no government of inauspicious tyrants nor of thieves will treat us like their subjugated beeves to herd us into some dark abbatoir our blood to fill a ghastly reservoir for george the vampire king of all this land to gorge himself while leading his vile band to cover all our earth with that red fire which marks the coming of a new empire where dullness, ignorance, and hate suppress all speech and silence all debate still in our private space we can withdraw from tyranny that comes in cloak of law |
18 April 2006
neither sonnet nor sennet
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WoW!
I wouldn't say it was that good. It's a simple five-finger exercise in Popeian satire.
Yeah, but when last have you seen Popeian satire?
There are some twentieth century examples in Kingsley Amis's Oxford Book of Light Verse. There's a wonderful piece by the Australian literary critic A.D. Hope called Dunciad Minor, skewering a lot of the major literary critics of the twentieth century.
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