8 May 1999 - the ABC’s of poetry

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 1999 : 8 May 1999

The Poetry ABC Song

Be or not be to beweep,
Miles to go like tremulous sheep.
Doom is dark. Dingle’s deep.
Constellations o’er us beep.
Now I know my ABC.
I think I’ll write some poetry.

clue:

It works best if you sing it. The parody consists mostly of fragments of famous lines and words that have been or are being overused in poems.

take oh take this clue away