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A Call to Alms

Posted by Ewan on January 29, 2009 - 09:13
from the ABC set

A call to alms
would better suit,
than strident, angry words of battle.
What care we fools
for careless commas,
and misused, misplaced: colons a-rattle?
The ode's the thing -
he almost said,
and writing, writhing on these pages,
is clear as mud,
for reasoned readers.
Why bother? Scribing for the ages
is not what it's
about my dear friend.
It's a calming, cooling of our passion
for ill-writ texts
of worthless waffle,
our selfish gene for self-expression.

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Comments

FTSE100 | January 29, 2009 - 10:51

If the point of it all is self-expression, goodness knows what self I express. Maybe we're just on the fringes of the entertainment business? Buskers begging for cherries, or at least some attention from passers-by?

jennifer | January 29, 2009 - 11:31

I am going to be my usual pedantic self!

In order for there to be self-expression, there must be a universal language that we all understand in which to express ourselves!

Gah!

Great poem, loved this bit:

and writing, writhing on these pages,
is clear as mud,
for reasoned readers.

p.s. your grammer is good, tho, innit?

J x