8 May 1999 - the ABC’s of poetry

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 1999 : 8 May 1999

The Poetry ABC Song

Be or not be to beweep,
Miles to go like tremulous sheep.
Doom is dark. Dingle’s deep.
Constellations o’er us beep.
Now I know my ABC.
I think I’ll write some poetry.

clue:

It works best if you sing it. The parody consists mostly of fragments of famous lines and words that have been or are being overused in poems.

give me a clue so sweet and true