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Should Poets Laugh At Themselves?
13 December 2007, the poet @ 11:28 pm

Want a good laugh? Doesn’t matter, you need one. You’ll need to read this from The Spoof.

You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll guffaw. You’ll choke on your banana.

I did.

It’s funny as hell.

Silly snippet:

“The war poets were the worst. I mean, honestly, if they’d spent less time trying to find rhymes for “Armistice” and more time practising with a bayonet, then maybe they wouldn’t have ended up with faces full of shrapnel.”

OK, if that didn’t make you laugh you’re not human. Or maybe it was just taken out of context and you didn’t get the joke. Click here and read the whole thing. It’s funny, and you’ll love the line about Ted Hughes. It’s just plain funny.

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