I do a lot of verbal composition in my sleep (we'd noticed - Ed.). On a
bad night, this involves an endless round of rewriting and an ever more
labyrinthine pursuit of an ever escaping subject - exhausting and
frustrating, like far too much of my dream life. However, on rare
occasions, I wake with something finished (though not necessarily making
any sense). It happened today, when I awoke with this new-minted
clerihew about a revered children's writer:
'Michael Morpurgo
Was born under Virgo,
Which might well explain
Why he's so very vain.'
This puts me in mind of the time Dorothy Parker awoke thinking she'd had
a profound insight into the human condition and jotted down the lines,
'Hogamus higamus, men are polygamous. Higamus hogamus, women
monogamous.'
My clerihew is nonsense of course - Morpurgo is not a Virgo.
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Very nice.
ReplyDeleteMy own insomniac ravings are usually nonsense words or half-words swarming around the rhythm of AA Milne's poem:
James James
Morrison Morrison
Weatherby George Dupree
Took great
Care of his Mother,
Though he was only three.
James James Said to his Mother,
"Mother," he said, said he;
"You must never go down
to the end of the town,
if you don't go down with me."
Further to the above, a typical masterpiece would be:
ReplyDeleteJames James
Wibble-you wobble-you
Timothy George Capri
Said goodbye to the circus
Though he was only three.
An improvement on the original, Brit!
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