So Much Depends Upon A Red Wheelbarrow

Posted by John in Book & Lit on October 6, 2008 at 10:31 pm


Yankee Pot Roast, a blog of literary satire, has a great spoof on poet William Carlos Williams, assuming that the famous modernist poet is your really bad roommate. Not as bad as the nudist obsessive-compulsive insomniac roommate that I had in college, but pretty bad. Here’s a sample:

This Is Just to Say

I have eaten
the soy ice cream
that was in
the ice box

and which
you expressly asked
me
not to touch

Forgive me
it was so gross
I threw half of
it away

Link via Grow-A-Brain

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4 comments to "So Much Depends Upon A Red Wheelbarrow"

  1. streetattack
    October 6th, 2008 at 10:40 pm

    this poem is AMAZING. partly because the first time I had soy ice cream I felt the same way.

  2. Jim
    October 7th, 2008 at 12:06 am

    This is legitimately the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.

  3. Gorf
    October 7th, 2008 at 9:00 pm

    The first time I read about William Carlos Williams was in this fantastic piece of anagram poetry: http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0005/anagram/

  4. Gorf
    October 7th, 2008 at 9:24 pm

    By the way, that’s an extract from the book “Holy Tango of Literature” by Francis Heaney, which I find most funny, amusing and erudite :D.


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