The Onion — Oh, how it makes me laugh
Author: laurie | Date: September 15, 2008 | Please Comment!Thanks to my friend and fellow poet Linda Dove for sending me this link:
National Endowment For the Arts Funds Construction of $1.3 Billion Poem
My favorite bit: “If the planners can secure an additional $6.2 million in funding, they may affix a long dash to the end of line three, though Gioia said that is a purely optimistic projection at this stage.”
Hee!
9:15 pm on September 20th, 2008
Oh, my!
“We’ve already put 200 hours of manpower into the semicolon at the end of the first stanza,” said Charles Simic, poet laureate of the United States and head author of the still- untitled piece. “And I’ve got my best guys working around the clock to convert all the ‘overs’ in the piece into one-syllable ‘o’ers.’ I got [Nobel Prize winner Seamus] Heaney and [Margaret] Atwood stripping all the V’s and tacking apostrophes in their place. It’s grunt work, but somebody’s got to do it if this poem’s going to get done.”
Hehe