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I saw this in Boy's life: Roses are red Violets are blue Some poems rhyme Some don't
by 0xdeadbeefbabe 10y ago
I saw this in Boy's life:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Some poems rhyme
Some don't
- cousin_it 10y agoThat's really good though. Similarly, Jim Butcher's "The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault" is great prose.
- drostie 10y agoKind of reminds me of: Train approaching Whistle squealing Stop Avoid that run-down feeling Burma-Shave
- qwertyuiop924 10y agomandatory xkcd reference: https://xkcd.com/491/ https://xkcd.com/491/
- yojex 10y agoAnd for the uninitiated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoIt's not great prose, but it's an excellent phrase, especially in context. Then again, that poem is not a great poem, but it works well in the context, and does its job suitably well. I assume this isn't what you meant...
- david-given 10y agoThis one's a classic: . There was a young man from Japan Whose limericks never would scan. When asked why that was, He replied "It's because I always try to cram as many words into the last line as I possibly can."