Poem: War With the Cartoon Characters

[Tom Hendricks]

War with the Cartoon Characters

We as a people had had enough!
"Let's try as a jury and also a judge
all the cartoon 2D bunch;
rope them and their shenanigans,"
shouted the crowd, every one.

"Time to be serious when things are dark,
time to go to work and pull a plow,
time to clean up after those who draw."

The characters in concert said, "Phooey to that!"
and sent raspberries to all in earshot
and drew up multiple musical instruments
and began their symphony of caterwauling
and antics of zingey merriment.

The people outraged, started to attack
swinging blunt erasers this way and that,

But the cartoon Characters formed one line
that drew a monster 1,000 feet high
and began to march on the country side.

Off fled the real-ies out of the land
never to bother the cartoon-ies again!.

Tom Hendricks

[philo]

Best poem I've heard all year

But seriously...I like it

[hello goodbye nevermind]

"philo" <ph...@privacy.invalid> wrote in message
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"but seriously..?" are we supposed to just take your
word for it?

can you please share with the group how you came
to your assessment...please?

but seriously...please?

or, through osmosis or some other medium, i'm
supposed to just know you know what you're talking
about. kind of like dockery...just accept when the
"master" has spoken.

whateva!

[Tom Hendricks]

Thanks!

[George Dance]

It reminds me a bit of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?".

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"Betty" by George Dance
http://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/

[philo]

sure thing

I'm going to show it to my GF next

[hello goodbye nevermind]

"George Dance" <george...@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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hey, george, you've got a shiny new blog page.

you're really going crazy over there.

what provoked you?

(to remain silent would be to admit defeat to
the lord of mediocrity.)

[George Dance]

On Jan 4, 4:32 pm, "hello goodbye nevermind"
<inoneearandoutyermot...@home.com> wrote:
> "George Dance" <georgedanc...@yahoo.ca> wrote in message

> "Betty" by George Dancehttp://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/

>
> hey, george, you've got a shiny new blog page.
>
> you're really going crazy over there.
>

I spent a month putting that together: first the poem (it started with
11 lines, and ended at more than 3,000), then the blog, as a place to
put it on line.

I hope you read a bit of it. I don't expect you to read it all; it's
not that type of poem, of course. It's meant to be something you can
pop into and read however much you want.

> what provoked you?
>

Ah. The original catalyst was this poem and critique --

http://groups.google.ca/group/rec.arts.poems/msg/763242561934a37d?hl=en

-- and things sort of snowballed from there.

[philo]

philo wrote:
> Tom Hendricks wrote:
>> On Jan 3, 6:10 a

>>> But seriously...I like it
>>
>> Thanks!
>
>
>
> sure thing
>
> I'm going to show it to my GF next

she liked it too!

[Will Dockery]

On Jan 3, 9:32 am, "hello goodbye nevermind"

I found the poem to be intelligent & good... more thoughts on the
nature and realities of cartoon & comix characters will follow soon,
I'm hoping to have time for.

--
"Red Lipped Stranger & other stories" by Will Dockery:
http://www.myspace.com/willdockery

[hello goodbye nevermind]

"Will Dockery" <will.d...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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in a dr. suess kind of way...without the anapestic tetrameter.
(see, i'm smought!) it almost goes into strict meter, but
falls shy. it feels like it could become a professional poem
with some work.

it appears to be apart of a much longer poem...like
it was pulled out...like a highlight.

more later...
(har har har)