Really, Truly, a Fox Did One Day Run Through Town
Dark Forest Fox?
Here's a poem that might be no good, but it's at least not doggerel:
See? No dogs! Just a mysterious fox . . . and I. Or would you prefer the third person singular experience:Vixenation 1One day a fox ran through my town.
I did not wish to let him down,
so I gave chase and ran along
beside that russet one too long.
I found myself in forest deep,
and so I lay me down to sleep,
exhausted, on the forest floor,
and there I sleep forevermore.
Which is best . . . or less bad?Vixenation 2One day a fox ran through his town.
He did not wish to let him down,
so he gave chase and ran along
beside that russet one too long.
He found himself in forest deep,
and so he lay him down to sleep,
exhausted, on the forest floor,
and there he sleeps forevermore.
Labels: Poems
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 6:10 AM
7 comments
7 Comments:
My wife votes for Vixenation 2.
I think she's right.
Jeffery Hodges
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I'm left seething with resentment.
Is this not the same Jeff Hodges who once admonished me by saying that, in a poem, every line ought to begin with a capital letter? What the hell happened? Did you mellow out over the years, or was that a bogus rule to begin with?
Either way,
I feel
Deeply, deeply
Betrayed.
I don't recall that argument. I have, however, always considered the rule to be conventional. Might you manage to locate the argument? Was I even being serious?
Jeffery Hodges
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I'll dig around for it if you want, but as you've gathered from the tone of my comment, my outrage is faux outrage.
Yes, I knew (though I gave the matter some thought) that you weren't serious. But I would like to read what you're referring to.
Jeffery Hodges
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I'll dig around. Please keep in mind that it's buried under a pile of over 12,000 blog posts, and there's no direct way to search for specific words in Blogger comments.
Sometimes, Google works.
Jeffery Hodges
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