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Alex in
Everything Else on Dec 9, 2005 at 1:04 am
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Francis Heaney asked a simple question: what would happen if poets and playwrights wrote works whose titles were anagrams of their names?
The result: Holy Tango Anthology of Literature. Here’s one of his gems:
IS A SPERM LIKE A WHALE? WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shall I compare thee to a sperm whale, sperm? Thou art more tiny and more resolute: Rough tides may sway a sea-bound endotherm, But naught diverts thy uterine commute. Sometime too fierce the eye of squid may glint And make a stout cetacean hunter quail; Methinks ’twould take much more than bilious squint To shake thee off the cunning ovum’s trail. Yet still thou art not so unlike, thou two, Both coursing through a dark uncharted brine While fore and aft there swims thy fellow crew; And note this echo, little gamete mine: As whales spray salty water from their spout, So with a salty spray dost thou come out.
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