30 April 2008

Sorry I burned your money

The last episode of This American Life concluded with an entertaining bit about the parodies that have been created from William Carlos Williams' poem/half-hearted-apology This is Just to Say.  I'm not normally a consumer of poetry but I found this particularly entertaining.  I think there's something to be said for hearing a poem instead of reading it that really makes it stick.  Or maybe it was that tiny drop of sarcasm.   

Sorry But it was Beautiful by Andrew Vecchione

Sorry I took your money and burned it
    but it looked like the world falling
    apart when it crackled and burned.
So I think it was worth it after all
    you can't see the world fall apart
    every day.

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