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In Which News Of The Weird Leads Me To Sexist Satirical Poetry

Mar 22, 2012
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Culture, Humor

When I heard about this story from Walter Olson and Amy Alkon:

A 34-year-old Ann Arbor man was sent to the hospital with a head injury after another man punched him on Saturday during a literary argument, according to police.

. . . I immediately thought of one of my favorite satirical poems, by Wendy Cope:

Poem Composed in Santa Barbara

The poets talk. They talk a lot.
They talk of T. S. Eliot.
One is anti. One is pro.
How hard they think! How much they know!
They're happy. A cicada sings.
We women talk of other things.

It's a good thing that there are people, otherwise there'd be nobody to laugh at.

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  1. TJIC  •  Mar 22, 2012 @1:07 pm

    > It's a good thing that there are people, otherwise there'd be nobody to laugh at.

    Come the inevitable plague of homo-sapiens-eating-bacteria, there will still be dogs doing stupid stuff.

    Unfortunately, no one will blog the pictures.

  2. shg  •  Mar 22, 2012 @2:00 pm

    I'm confident that if I used that poem at my place, I would be accused of sexism.

  3. Ken  •  Mar 22, 2012 @2:14 pm

    I'm pretty sure it wouldn't stand out from all the other woman-bullying sexism over there.

  4. PalMD  •  Mar 22, 2012 @4:43 pm

    Typical Ann Arbor.

  5. fozzy  •  Mar 24, 2012 @8:44 pm

    I've been trying to make the next "Road to Popehat" by searching for disgusting word pairs and adding Popehat to them. It's not as easy as it looks, I can't get here without just typing the address in. Also I'm probably on some NSA watchlist now.

  6. doug  •  Mar 25, 2012 @12:34 pm

    i grew up near A2 (as the pretentious liked to call it) and this does not surprise me at all.

  7. Gaunilo  •  Mar 26, 2012 @10:24 am

    She does not rant! She does not rave!
    But nothing from her will they save.