Tuesday, April 19, 2005

 

Today's NaPoWriMo poem, a tuneless mess known as The Japanese Lovers. No matter how bad my poem may be, though, it can't be nearly as offensive as its namesake. Check out the first verse of Horace Russell & William Greene's 1870 poem "The Japanese Lovers," as featured in that compendium of horror, The Best Loved Poems of the American People, and tell me I'm wrong:

Fanny Foo-Foo was a Japanese girl,
A child of the great Tycoon;
She wore her head bald, and her clothes were made
Half petticoat, half pantaloon;
And her face was the color of lemon peel,
And the shape of a tablespoon.

Holy yikes. You can see the rest of the poem here. It doesn't improve.

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