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2007-10-22 -Obits-

Fresh clues could solve mystery of Poe's death

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-10-22 03:19|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Wolfe too.

Also: Been saving that illustration for awhile? I LOL'd.

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-10-22 08:20|| 2007-10-22 08:20|| Front Page Top

#2 The raven did it.

Posted by Mike 2007-10-22 09:05|| 2007-10-22 09:05|| Front Page Top

#3 From Peter Veale's pen, as toothsome a tidbit as one could ever hope for.

The Ravens Reply

Swaggering home in raven fashion
Feeling rather bold and dashing
Thought Id do some poet bashing
Saw this light above a door.

A sigh that E.A. Poe was poring
Oer some problem bleak and boring
Like how to rhyme with Ulalume
or find a maiden named Lenore

And when I heard the nutter mutter
Oh, my lost Lenore!
I tapped my beak upon his door

Presently the joyless mortal
Opened up his gloomy portal
Eyed me with misgiving and
Inquired what my visit was for

I said I was a poor old raven
Tuckered out and seeking haven
Might I rest a while upon
the bust of Pallas oer his door?

The bust, well if you must he answered
Clearly shaken to the core
But what news have you of Lenore?"

By Jeeze, I mused, by flaming golly
This man is clearly off his trolley
Ill play upon his melancholy
As I perch above his door.

I said Dear Brother Poe, Im sorry.
For I cannot ease your worry.
Except that you might bring me
Some small provision from your store.

A piece of steak would do me nicely
Even offal if youre poor
Oh, then I might remember more.

Corrupt and greedy bird he chided
Is my sorrow thus derided
One whos lost a love as I did
On the nights Plutonian shore?

Regards your attitude as callous
So pray quit the bust of Pallas
Where you seem disposed to spend
Half the dreary night or more

And pray clean up the raven droppings
From my floor
Before youre banished from my door.

I stared him out,
I didnt waver
So I finally got to savor
Some small offering from his store.

He fed me but I kept on stalling
Told him I was past recalling
Anything of his fair maiden
Anything of lost Lenore

I broke the wretched fellows spirit
With my croaks of Nevermore
And Im immortalized for sure.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-22 16:43|| 2007-10-22 16:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Damn, damn damn, that's what I get for typing from memory. It's:

I stared him out, I didnt waver
Clean up the floor? Do me a favor!
So I finally got to savor
Some small offering from his store.

He fed me but I kept on stalling
Told him I was past recalling
Anything of his fair maiden
Anything of lost Lenore

I broke the wretched fellows spirit
With my croaks of Nevermore
And Im immortalized for sure.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-22 16:47|| 2007-10-22 16:47|| Front Page Top

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