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I hope he writes a limerick for the next Supreme Court session

From today's WaPo (registration)

When I [Gene Weingargen] heard that the new poet laureate of the United States was to be Donald Hall, the New Hampshire literary eminence, I was elated. The media accounts rightfully praised the beauty and sophistication of Hall's verse. But that's not why I was happy. I was happy because I knew something most in the media didn't.

The respectable Donald Hall at times has been a joyful practitioner of some of the lowest, least dignified, raunchiest forms of poetry. In short, he's my kind of guy! He's done limericks, and he is a fan of the infinitely silly but challenging "Higgledy piggledies," also known as double dactyls.

So Weingarten faxes him his own double-dactyl tribute:

Higgledy piggledy Donald Hall, Laureate! News of it rains in an Imperfect storm, Tragicomedically Failing to mention his Seminal work in this Sorry-ass form.
And it all goes downhill from there.

Posted by Peony on August 6, 2006 7:00 PM |

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hmmmm

I liked the little comic pictures of the poet laureate and the poet vulgaris.

Posted by: Coucoumelle | August 7, 2006 9:31 AM

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