Where is fancy bread,
at the market…or
at home instead?
erthona
©2016
Sweet sentiment, although I sort of disagree with the ellipsis, this being all short already. Also, and I really couldn't resist,
At your mother's home --
still in the oven, in fact:
guess who's the baker?
with apologies to both authors:-
Tell me where is fancy bread:
in the mart, or homey-stead,
with nougat and cream nourished?
Reply, reply.
'Tis endangered by franchise,
like formulaic storefront pies
beloved only of the flies.
What if I said fancy bread
was in a lass's drawers instead,*
with a heigh and a ho and a heigh nonnino?
*desk drawers, where she stores foreign currency, you pervert!
I accept your apology, not for the verse, which was fun, but for rhyming "nourished" with "bread" and "stead" -- or at least that's how I read it.
(02-11-2016, 01:15 AM)RiverNotch Wrote: [ -> ]I accept your apology, not for the verse, which was fun, but for rhyming "nourished" with "bread" and "stead" -- or at least that's how I read it.
Ah - no, it's a spoof of 'Tell me where is fancy bred' from the Merchant of Venice!
the last strophe is an allusion to another poem, 'It was a lover and his lass' - from Love's Labour's Lost
(02-11-2016, 01:16 AM)Achebe Wrote: [ -> ] (02-11-2016, 01:15 AM)RiverNotch Wrote: [ -> ]I accept your apology, not for the verse, which was fun, but for rhyming "nourished" with "bread" and "stead" -- or at least that's how I read it.
Ah - no, it's a spoof of 'Tell me where is fancy bred' from the Merchant of Venice!
the last strophe is an allusion to another poem, 'It was a lover and his lass' - from Love's Labour's Lost
See, it still hurts (it always does -- I would smack all the poets of their time for it, if I had the chance) and having read the Merchant of Venice a bunch of times now, it only hurts even more that I didn't notice that.
You were both being so clever you missed the pun, but points to cleverness, especially cross referencing to another poem.
dale
Where then is Fancy bred,
well at home is what she said.
dale
Where is fancy bread or bred?
A pun, they say -- well I say, nay!
For I, a boulanger Alsatian,
am also a lover of shepherds --!
Well the third would follow the second, but have nothing to do with the first.
I noticed your new avatar, is that what your name hinges on?
dale
Nah, it just looks the most like me, is why I chose it.
Unhinged - nice visual pun
An unhinged butt, yes. Or perhaps a butt unhinged.
So I guess you are very holy?
Just a little holiness around the edges.