Dead Poets' Appreciation Society

from Bumper Jumper 12 by STEVE.E

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DEAD POETS’ APPRECIATION SOCIETY

T.S. Eliot is a towering figure.
In poetry, it doesn't get much bigger!

Unless you go and wheel in Big Bill,
Fan the flames with Dante Alighieri
And bung in some Chaucer too.
You know, go for the quill:
A motley, medieval scrivener crew.

The French boast Corneille and Racine,
Heavyweights of the literary scene.
And don't forget Rimbaud and Baudelaire,
Lest they kick you in the derrière,
Et peut-être give you the guillotine!

The Russians would have a seizure
If we didn't mention their bruiser:
Great Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin,
Who wrote epically of Eugene Onegin,
And died dueling at the weaker end!

And what about Herrs Goethe and Schiller?
The Germans had a few crack scribes.
Later on came Thomas Mann and Hesse;
They didn't always split your sides,
But Dr. Faustus was quite a thriller.

Going back, there was horribulus Horace,
Who bored us to death at school,
Though Byron and Shelley were pretty cool;
They smoked dope and hung out in bars.
Such kickarse Romantic poetry stars!

But you've got to hand it to Thomas Stearns.
He certainly knew his Grecian urns,
And all the parameters of iambic pentameters.
Anyway, trusting it won't spark any spats,
I like Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.

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from Bumper Jumper 12, released December 7, 2021
Poems written and narrated by Steve Elliott

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