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Tuesday 4 September 2007

Poems Not To Be Read Aloud: 2 -- by File

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[You'll need to click on the picture to read it properly]

9 comments:

Zephirine said...

For the full cinematic effect you need people getting up and walking across between you and the screen... while the theme music is replayed with multiple variations...

Anonymous said...

Oh brilliant. Now this I understand and as I read, I felt the familiar frustration rising in me as at the end of a film, when you are desperate to try and find the one name you want, both the names roll too fast, and as Zeph said, buggers keep standing up in front of you.

This is one I shall be returning to, often.

file said...

glad you like it Mimi, it's one of my darkest pomes to date

Anonymous said...

File: I can see despair and anger in it, but because it is so clever, it transmits a sense of humour, although somewhat black and bleak.

offsideintahiti said...

Oh yeah, it's dark allright.

Mort de rire.

offsideintahiti said...

I read it again and realised you forgot to include the mandatory "No Animals were hurt in the making of this motion picture", which presumably means that the actors, producers, and crew are all vegetarians.

file said...

well, I wasn't hurt in the making of this movie and that's the main thing

were you? o yeh, death by laughter, but, and I know it's a small point, is the OfflicenceinTahiti animal, mineral or a vegetable?

offsideintahiti said...

Well, after two hours of footing, football, and - don't laugh - weightlifting, the answer you're looking for is definitely vegetable.

Mrs Offside would no doubt confirm.

file said...

does alfalfa respond to weights then?