Wednesday, February 25, 2009

THEm!


I'm not one o'THEm
(you know, the ones with the 'THE' middle name):

There's John THE Baptist,
Alexander THE Great[ist?],

Joe THE Plumber
(but no Christopher THE Plummer),

Popeye THE Sailor,
Philo THE Elder,

Attila THE Hun
(and even Attila THE Pun),

[ ... ]

Winnie THE Pooh,
and Philo THE Jew.

(Perhaps Philo THE Dialectician*
 is THE best I can do.)


for Totally Optional Prompts: Anaphora (rfp 2009/02/25)

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectician

9 comments:

  1. Amazing. Liked it very much!

    Bop it

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  2. Hi Phil, I've got a character called Walter THE JIB Gibraltar in some of my poems. Then of course there's Joe THE Taxi in my local pub!

    Have you tried THE NaisaiKu.. Challenge! yet?

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  3. Ah, so clever and readable! Enjoyed it! I'm betting you'd do an excellent Naisaiku (as per Sweet Talking Guy) comment.

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  4. Thanks all!

    I need to contemplate naisaiku (← gesundheit?) this weekend and see what comes out.

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  5. This was very clever. I enjoyed reading it.


    love-bd

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