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Adventures with an unreliable narrator.
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Oct 5 02: hipsters poetical
So today John and César and Sari and Paul and I spent the afternoon at the Met (seeing the Avedon show, plus other stuff), then had sushi, and then drinks. Along the way we composed the first part of the following diptych; shortly thereafter Sari and I banged out the second.
Romeo & Juliet: two double-dactyls
I.
Higgledy-Piggledy
Romeo Montague,
Angry young man with a
Stabbed-to-death friend:
Wooing a teenager,
Ultrahormonally
Swings from a balcony;
Dies at the end.
II.
Higgledy-Piggledy
Juliet Capulet—
Renaissance ingenue,
Girl with a nurse—
Marries a Montague
Melodramatically;
It’ll end badly, so
Go start the hearse.
If you aren’t familiar with the form, read this, a full explanation (including the famous meta-DD), plus a number of examples which will be particularly hilarious to classicists.