Even though my name is Wile E
I am not quite feeling smiley
My gestalt today is “slyly”
After Roadrunner I go.
Every day I’m getting thinner,
For I go without my dinner,
Someone else ends up the winner –
Everybody tells me so.
I buy all my stuff from Acme,
If you think I’m wrong, just sack me,
But if not you have to back me,
I have every strange device
Like a rocket-driven scooter,
With a laser-missile shooter,
That’s controlled by a computer –
(Roast Roadrunner would be nice!)
I have one compulsion, given
That I am so very driven,
And I will, at last, be shriven
When that bird’s in pitta bread!
The Acme salesman said it
(The truth? Somehow I dread it)
“If you have so much dang credit –
Get a pizza sent instead!”
Author notes
Option 1 - I know you would prefer an original cartoon character, but I have always identified with the hapless, obsessive-compulsive Coyote. He is someone totally task-oriented, so much so that he can't see an easier option when it is right under his nose. This is SO ME!
Written June 25th, 2006
In a list
A contest entry
- Character of yourself with options Contest by SmokinHotWhiteTiger.
300 points, ended July 1, 2006, 10 entries
Gold trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
What did you think
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I just love this Mairi. That cartoon never lasted long enough for me. I wanted it to go on forever. What cracked me up was that the coyote could pull the fattest device from behind the skinniest cactus. Poof! There it appeared. And the expressions on his face! lol
Thoroughly enjoyed this!
Paul
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brought a smile to an otherwise gray rainy day---maybe if Wile E ordered the pizza the road runner would come for dinner, ha ha
Joe
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... as dessert!
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Darling
I am so glad
your write it had
such fame I'm told
this won the gold.
Smoosh
Janet -
Tangle, you barm-pot, it was an extended metaphor from beginning to end! (Except for the pizza - that was an actual pizza, and very nice it was too)
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'Tiger, I am very glad you liked it, and thanks for the gold cup. It looks nice on my shelf.
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Thanks Meg!
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Dear Mairi,
Woman wilt thou now give this 'ol boy some credit for spotting a winner! HA!
Comedy may just be part of your forte after all!
Your barm-pot and great admirer of your poetry,
Tangle
(ain't no metaphores here, was there?) -
good flow to it
Every day I’m getting thinner,
For I go without my dinner,
Someone else ends up the winner –
Everybody tells me so.
This opening line really hit me and I saw how it was not so funny. I fele so blinded by my laughter that I did nott ake that into cosndieration that you were really like that. I laughed because Wile E. Coyote is quite a funny person. Yoyu earned 1st place and I think personally you really wrote well and I really don't have anything I could change or help you with. the poem flowed that helps the most and it has humor mixed in and also just saw that it also deals with who yuo are as you aid. I find it sad you're getitng thinner the wrong way and hopefully it'll reverse and you'll eat more. sorry I am not much help just how I see the poem as
congrats on 1st place and think you earned 1st because I liked it and the 2nd place winner just commentyed I see
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!!!!!!! This is an amazing poem... it was hilarious... I see why you won gold with this poem!!!!!!! Rock On!!!!!!!
xoox
Meg
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I'm glad the Coyote got the Tiger laughing!
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Scribs, it just wouldn't occur to Wile E to lawyer-up!
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Nicely written and very funny!
okau I gotta do this: LOL LOL LOL LOL lotz more LOLLING!!! I absolutekly love this poem. your authiors note got me laughingso hard and as I read the poem again it got me smiling andf laughin. I give ya brownie points for creativity and well the fact you explained in the author's note what you were doing. Nice work might I add your poem is brilliant I may not know you but if you are like Wile E Coyote then as you say then I gotta admit that is something cool! Nice work all round and Good Luck
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Personally I think the Roadrunner is a mean dispicable creature and that Wylie should sue Acme. This if funny hon, well done.
Scribs -
{is glad the Pixie Queen likes it}
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No, it's a real beep, Michael!
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Very funny.
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Oh, this is a real hoot!
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The thing is - it's perfect for me.
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I love the coyote! He was my favorite cartoon character when I was a kid - this is really funny and so perfect for him! Shiny Sis
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Why does everyone say "beep beep"?
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a pleasure to read
Thanks for the much-needed humour, Mairi, It's always good to laugh at our silly selves whenever possible. Your'e not changing your pen-name to Wild-E Bheag, are you ? Best of luck in the contest. Beep, Beep !!!!
Mercury Rising -
Hello Poe, whaddya know?
I just got back from a cartoon show!
Saw a Kye-yote chase a bird,
The whole dang thing was pretty absurd!
But while I laughed (tee hee hee),
I realised the Kye-yote was just like me!
Obsessive-compulsive, so annoyed,
I'm beginning to think I'm paranoid!
(They're all talking about me, y'know!)
Edited on Jun 25, 2:00 p.m. because 'spelling'. -
Mairi, Mairi, quite literary
how these poems do grow
with words & wit, polish & spit
and our applauses all in a row...
beep...beep... roadrunner came through and you nailed that
cartoon to the literary wall.. you are wily aren't you?
lapoe...
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Ta, Melo!
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Yikes! A coyote is after me
Oh, you sly one! You have teamed up with this coyote to make us laugh today, which you surely did! Fun and then some, is this very cute and clever poem!
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Hey Tangle - you utter barm-pot! How come you sailed past my lovely sonnet about Nefertiti and lighted on this load of old pony? allpoetry.com/Poem/2090343
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Dear Mairi,
That coyote is really a crazy clown!
I love Wile E. and he's looking very
cool in your poem!
Wonderful with wit and humor!
Your barm-pot,
Tangle
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