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kaberettAs you may or may not be aware, via Reddit there are poems about cows on tumblr. This beautiful thread combines an introduction to the source with some scathing -- and metrical -- meta.
Tonight I have been apprised of a riff on the theme referencing a popular children's nursery rhyme. A friend followed up with The Moonsheep (and the original German).
Which, of course, led me on to the following.
( Lies, by Jo Shapcott )
I'm never quite sure how much I like it -- I love the idea but something about the combination of not-quite-overwrought and not-quite-matter-of-fact doesn't work for me.
I would, naturally, be interested in both your thoughts and whatever livestock poetry you free-associate onto.
Tonight I have been apprised of a riff on the theme referencing a popular children's nursery rhyme. A friend followed up with The Moonsheep (and the original German).
Which, of course, led me on to the following.
( Lies, by Jo Shapcott )
I'm never quite sure how much I like it -- I love the idea but something about the combination of not-quite-overwrought and not-quite-matter-of-fact doesn't work for me.
I would, naturally, be interested in both your thoughts and whatever livestock poetry you free-associate onto.
