Comments on: Poetry

By: mig

mig — Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:06:28 +0000

This all happened in German, by the way. My younger daughter is experimenting with language. We have a book of nonsense poems, in German, I read her at bedtime some nights.

I’ll try to discourage the rhyming, though, Eeksy. Thanks for the heads-up.

By: marydell

marydell — Fri, 18 Jul 2003 02:35:01 +0000

In my experience, you give a kid a word and ask for a rhyme, then you stand there like an idiot because the entire class is staring at you like you just said something in Swahili.

By: dong

dong — Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:15:05 +0000

Is this child normally inclined to drool?
I like a bit of horseplay, but I’ve got better things to do than wipe up.

By: secret agent bran

secret agent bran — Thu, 17 Jul 2003 04:59:48 +0000

orange comes to mind, yes. moon makes it to the final draft.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:28:16 +0000

I tell ‘em to go read Eeksy-Peeksy.
Then I give ‘em a word with more than four syllables, like “infinitessimal,” and sit back and watch. 9 times out of ten, they come up with “deep in the vestibule.”

By: Eeksy-Peeksy

Eeksy-Peeksy — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:41:49 +0000

I tell her, listen kid, no one but no one rhymes nuffin wiff nuffin dese days, and you won’t neither if you knows what’s good fer ya. I tells her, listen kid, poetry is unread outside the universities and undead inside the universities. Then I takes her to the bus station and puts her on the next bus outta town. And she don’t rhyme no more.

Or I make up a word that sounds funny. Fnoozable, maybe.