--- Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> MANY MORE MACARONICALLY
>
> Le cheval Parthenon s'enerve sur la frise.
> Since Elgin seems to think the nose de trop,
> la decouverte alors voila qui traumatise--
> so stink the rotting skins from long ago.
I was trying to work out why this struck me as more a
villanelle than a sonnet, despite the rhyme scheme,
and all I can think is that there are shades of Empson
aomewhere in the background.
Worse people to be haunted by, but.
Stick a feather in my cap, and call me macaroni.
R.
"Yankee Doodle went to town
A-riding on a pony
Stuck a feather in his hat
And called it macaroni. "
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