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this is the song that never ends,
it just goes on and on, my friends.
some people started singing it
not knowing what it was
and they’ll continue singing it forever just because,
this is the song that never ends....
<repeat... and repeat... and...>
with thanks to tsuwm
Who's tsuwming who?
He must've written this poem with this thread in mind!
THE SCREEN WITH THE FACE WITH THE VOICE
by Ogden Nash
How long
Is a song?
O Lord,
How long?
A second?
A minute?
An hour?
A day?
A decade?
A cycle of Cathay?
Press the ears
With occlusive fingers;
The whining melody
Lingers, lingers;
The mouthing face
Will not be hid,
But leers at the eye
From the inner lid.
With the sure advance of ultimate doom
The moaning adenoids larger loom;
The seven-foot eyebrows fall and rise
In roguish rapture or sad surprise;
Eyeballs roll with fine emotion,
Like buoys rocked by a treacle ocean;
Tugged like the bell above the chapel,
Tosses the giant Adam's apple;
Oozes the voice from the magic screen,
A slow Niagra of Grenadine;
A frenzy of ripe orgiastic pain,
Niagra gurgling down the drain.
How long
Is a song?
O Lord,
How long?
As long as Loew,
And Keith,
And Albee;
It Was,
And Is,
And Always Shall Be.
This is the string Time may not sever,
This is the music that lasts forever,
This is the Womb,
This is the Tomb,
This is Alpha, Omega, and Oom!
The eyes, the eyes shall follow you!
The throat, the throat shall swallow you!
Hygienic teeth shall wolf you!
And viscous voice engulf you!
The lolloping tongue itself answer your question!
The Adam's Apple dance at your ingestion!
And you shall never die, but live to nourish the bowels
Of deathless celluloid vowels.
© 1947 by Ogden Nash
(note: the italics are mine)
Does anyone remember the name for the rhetorical device for saying what you are not
going to say?
Faldage reply: Yes
Dear Faldage: Another example of the rhetorical device:
" I will not say you are lying, but I am unable to think of a more probable reason for not giving its name."
imagine how pleased I was to get the chance to post this somewhere
No-one ever accused me of having "good breeding", or "good manners" for that matter, but I know when I have met my match. tsuwm deserves to have "the last word".
OP I know when I have met my match
He does have the superior claim, wordminstrel. Qui melius probat, melius habet. It is gracious of you to concede defeat. I know how much it meant to you.
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