Ok, there's this poem I read several years ago and loved. Now I want to show it to my English teacher, but I can't find the book and I don't remember the title or the author. I know, this is a ridiculous request, but if anybody can do it, Hatrack can.
What I do remember:
the author is male
the poem is absolutely hilarious
I thought the title (of the poem, and maybe the book) was "A Poem About Absolutely Nothing" or "Poems About Absolutely Nothing", but neither of those turn up anything useful on Google or Amazon
my father thought the title was "Poems in Praise of Absolutely Nothing", but that didn't get me anywhere, either
the book itself was at least twenty years old, but I'm sure it was written sometime in the 20th century
the book was a small paperback
it was in English, and was originally that way
I'm pretty sure it was American
the poem was quite long, and was a series of discrete sections on various aspects of day-to-day life
Does this ring a bell with anybody?
Posted by Miro (Member # 1178) on :
Thanks, but no.
My mom suggested the author might be Ogden Nash, but I'm not getting anywhere with that, either.
Posted by alath (Member # 6150) on :
I found a book called The Paper Doorway: Funny Verse and Nothing Worse. This was the only thing I could find. There's a new search thing on Google called Froogle that might help ou though.
Posted by Miro (Member # 1178) on :
Wierd, the post before mine just disappeared, making it look like I'm talking to myself...
Thanks, alath, but that's not it, either. I'll try Froogle, but I don't think it can find anything that Google can't.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Nothing from a straight line swerves So sharply as a woman's curves, And, having swerved, no might or main Can ever put her straight again.
Posted by Miro (Member # 1178) on :
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