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| Note the miniature city on an island in the swamp on the right. |
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Boring Tree
Living in the middle of a city can be so dreary. A couple of kilometres from my place is this boring tree doing nothing. I hope one day the swamp it lives in can be drained and developed into something interesting like a rollerdisco or mini-golf. Perhaps a concrete pillar or mobile phone tower can be erected in its place.
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I think that I shall never see
ReplyDeleteA poem boring as this tree
Actually Simon, your poem is at least twice as boring as this tree.
ReplyDeleteHow dare you insult the great Joyce Kilmer, and on this day too!
ReplyDeleteI was merely reproducing the opening lines of a little-known version of Kilmer's famous poem, which I chanced upon in the attic of Mrs Henry Mills Alden, whose New Jersey home I was burgling in the fall of 1994.
I subsequently made the poem the subject of my PhD thesis (Boring as Trees: Kilmer's Hatred of All Things Arboreal). Until that time, Kilmer's distaste for trees was little understood, indeed a dark family secret.
Shame on you, Mr Lewk!