[MR] Shakespearean Hokey Pokey

[deepfatfriar at mindspring.com]

I'm not aware that billyboy wrote any 10-line sonnets (one did have 15, tho). Things like that don't usually get buy the eds at the Post.

Thomas

-----Original Message-----
From: Betty Eyer <betty_eyer at yahoo.com>
Sent: Jan 8, 2004 11:35 AM
To: Aedan Aylwyn <aedan at mindspring.com>, 
	Atlantian List <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
Subject: Re: [MR] Shakespearean Hokey Pokey

See.  The hokey-pokey IS what it's all about. 8^)

--- Aedan Aylwyn <aedan at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Got this from another list, but since it came from
> the Washington Post...
> 
> Aedan
> 
> >The Hokey Pokey, by William Shakespeare:
> >
> >O proud left foot, that ventures quick within
> >
> >Then soon upon a backward journey lithe.
> >
> >Anon, once more the gesture, then begin:
> >
> >Command sinistral pedestal to writhe.
> >
> >Commence thou then the fervid Hokey-Poke,
> >
> >A mad gyration, hips in wanton swirl.
> >
> >To spin! A wilde release from Heavens yoke.
> >
> >Blessed dervish! Surely canst go, girl.
> >
> >The Hoke, the poke - banish now thy doubt
> >
> >Verily, I say, 'tis what it's all about.
> >
> >- Jeff Brechlin, of Potomac Falls, Va., winner of a
> Washington Post
> >contest to write a series of instructions in the
> style of a famous
> >writer.
> 
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