Monday, April 07, 2008

April

April is National Poetry Month.

Hmm. I don't have much to say about this.


So much depends
on
a man
from Nantucket?

7 comments:

cityofmushrooms said...

april is the cruellest month because nobody cares about national poetry month

Anonymous said...

I care...and to prove the point, I am blessing ye all with the following:

Charleton, you are dead.
No more thoughts inside your head.
Your hands are cold, so sad to say,
You will not see another day.
But I can still revel in thee, yes I can,
Simply by watching The Omega Man.
Your looks of bronze, your body lean,
Like it was also in Soylent Green.
And Planet of the Apes, wow, what a thrill,
They should name your birth town Hestonville.
You were simply fab on the big screen,
But, alas, there, you'll no longer be seen.
So, farewell, Chuck, you gun-toting looney
The cimemas are now ruled by Mr. Clooney.

JAW fan

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

Wow. And to think they have given the job of Canadian Poet Laureate to someone else.

(I can only imagine the words of grief that will flow when Mr. Connery finally kicks the bucket...)

Anonymous said...

...please apologize for my typo..it should read "cinemas" not "cimemas"...

I guess by the end of my eulogy my eyes were water-logged and I hit the wrong key.

Sorry, Chuck!

JAW fan

PS: as for Sean's eulogy, I better started working on it now ...have to find words to rhyme with Goldfinger and Zardoz...somehow, I think Old Zinger and Hard Laws just won't cut it.

cityofmushrooms said...

JAW-fan: I bow before your poetic prowess

Anonymous said...

it's okay I thought it was Charleston Heston? it's actually Charlton without the e, so we're both wrong. Awesome poem! Is this what you do at work so early in the morning?

N.

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

My mother always used to refer to him as Charleston Heston too.

Not that he was a big topic of conversation in our house. Only around Easter when Ben-Hur was on.