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"Tell me where is whimsy bred"
Tuesday, 4 August 2009 08:54Tell me where is whimsy bred,
In the bath or in the bed?
How's it born and how misled?
Reply, reply.
Within our empty skulls it's taught
To wander round until it's caught
Within its arms a passing thought
And makes it lie.
Let us all wring whimsy's neck.
I'll begin it -- dang, blast, heck.
Dang, blast, heck!
---L.
In the bath or in the bed?
How's it born and how misled?
Reply, reply.
Within our empty skulls it's taught
To wander round until it's caught
Within its arms a passing thought
And makes it lie.
Let us all wring whimsy's neck.
I'll begin it -- dang, blast, heck.
Dang, blast, heck!
—21 September 2002
Parody of Merchant of Venice III.ii.63ff, of course. Not to be taken as a serious expression of the poet's own beliefs. The truest poetry is most feigning, as As You Like It is wont to say.---L.