Many thanks to the great humor site MuddyUm for publishing Trapped in a Roomful of Poets. Featured image by Luis Alvarez Catala, public domain, Wikipedia Commons. Excerpt:
“The first poet was an older woman. She came to the mic and announced that her favorite poet was Gertrude Stein because her friends said she looked like Gertrude Stein. She read a poem she wrote during a Paris vacation entitled, Whatever Happened to Alice B. Tookasβ-βI Don’t Know. The poem was in three parts. The first part was terrible, the second part worse, and the third part horrendous…”
Hilarious! A modern-day “No Exit.”
No Exit is right. π
Perhaps for your next one, you could do “Trapped in a Roomful of Instapoets.”
Thatβs a good idea. And an overwhelming thought. ππ
Heh, heh . . . π
That Ralph Waldo Iverson
poached my poem …
‘Go Robert Frostbite the Big One’,
so, from the frying pan π³
into the fire with him π₯
Thanks for starting my day with
a poeti grin, Mr. Tulin π π
Youβre welcome, David. π
OMG…what a night.
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