Tuesday, April 22, 2008

NPM: We Are Not Amused

April is National Poetry Month. I intend to celebrate it by posting a poem every day. This one is by GK Chesterton.

We Are Not Amused


Puck and the woodland elves shall weep with me
For that lost joke I made in Ledborough Lane,
The joke that Mrs. Baines declined to see
Although I made it very loud and plain.
I made the joke again and yet again,
I analysed it, parsed it and explained:
I did my very best to entertain,
But Mrs. Baines would not be entertained.

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