(after: W. B. Yeats)
I know that I shall meet my mate
Somewhere, perchance, down aisle three;
She shops for clothes she loves to hate
She shops to sample things for free;
Her cart is made of stainless steel,
Her cart is Wal*Mart's finest ride,
No items there shall make me squeal
Nor make me feel too good inside.
No impulse ever makes her shop,
Nor advertisement's cunning wit;
A hundred grand she'd love to drop
for chintzy Made-in-China shi_!
I balanced all, the checkbook's sum,
The years to come seemed waste of dough;
A waste of dough seems just a crumb
To how I love that lady so.
Author notes
(after: W. B. Yeats)
A contest entry
- Parodies (serious or satirical) #62 by Winklings.
3970 points, ended April 6, 11 entries
Honorable winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Give it to me, both barrels, the good, the bad and the ugly.
Comments
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You are so right on with this one, love cancels all debts lol I adore this one, too
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This poem, is a parody
and I enjoyed its joviality.
Both poems treat the reflections of a man in his prime. Yeats's poem is sad. Yours is wry. One has the expense of spirit. Yours has expense.
Thank you.
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Personally
I feel that you made a good parody out of this sad poem of Yeats. Like his poem, there are mixed feelings. One is the expense of spirit; yours, the expense.
Lyndon of the Winklings.
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I could feel the origional poem all through your parody from beginning to the end. A very enjoyable read The romancing of WallMart Parodying the Romance of War Brilliant
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Thank you for the nice comment! Gladja liked it!
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Lovely - not the aisles of Wal*Mart, but the sentiment that rounds off and justifies the previous complaint, if it is a complaint. Such knowledge and satisfaction make a marriage work.
"She shops for clothes she loves to hate
She shops to sample things for free"
is very droll - I'm like that too.
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Faithful to the original and fun to read.
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Scary
Shopping can be a bit of a horror where pennies must be pinched, carried away into mega-debt!
Enjoyed it in a twitchy kind of way: to support such a high-maintenance wife!
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Splendid!
^_^ A very enjoyable read.
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Aw... you've parodied one of my top favourite poems. "A lonely impulse of delight/ Drove to this tumult in the clouds"
Still, I'm sure Yeats must have had a laugh occasionally. And this is a very funny parody. Suspect it needs an American accent to make it properly syllabic. In Scotland, aisle is pronounced ile (as is oil, confusingly enough) and advertisement has the stress firmly on the 'ver'. But we too have Wal*Marts! How civilisation advances, eh? Only they've stopped accepting cheques.
Only joking. Excellent verse.
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aisle
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UK - oil
US - EYE-yull
advertisement
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UK = ad-VER-tiss-ment
US = AD-ver-TIZE-munt
as best as I can figure. As I've mentioned to a few people, I avoid the words 'fire' and 'world' for just the same reason. The dictionary has both as single syllables but when people talk to me I almost always hear 'FYE-ur' and 'WHIR-uld'. Without looking it up I can almost guarantee the authorities have 'aisle' as one syllable as well. Geesh, I never gave it a thought before you mentioned it. -
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Hmm.
Aisle bet you didn't.
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Delightful!
The master has merit in the aisles, bringing forth great smiles...like candy, sweet
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Odd.
I'm relatively sure I already commented on this. Good job in any case.
Amazing what you can come up with after breaking bread with the dead.
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I laughed all the way through. I'm afraid I'll break out in guffaws the next time I visit Wally World.lol.
This was fun!
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Thank you for the uplifting comments. Although I disagree with a lot of your politically oriented poetry, I always have to admit that it is well written and well thought out. Thanks again------Jim
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makes me think of a couple who met in the 50's, and suddenly realized who the other was now in the 2000 era... i like this.
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Thanks
Glad to see you're not forsaking your cultural obligations!
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