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(For
3/21 Tea Time in L.A.) SONNET #3: Saving The Buffyverse with
Buffy Verse
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#3 What Do We Hold
Sacred?
Posted by: forensicpopouri - Mar 21, 2002, 2:57
PM
Lacking time to search out
another whiff of mystical sewer gas this
morning,
forensicpopouri reluctantly lifts the
left rear corner of his desk and kicks out
a
folded piece of paper that he'd stuck there
to keep his work "on the level."
<smile>
He remembers the sheet of
paper well. On it, a sonnet he'd composed
around
the time of "Doublemeat Palace" . . . He
begins retyping them into his
laptop:
#3 WHAT DO WE HOLD
SACRED?
I HOPE IT'S FAIR TO SAY
we're not "just fans."
Our "group identity"
does not require
a thoughtless positive
that squelches pans --
won't blindly
"worship" that which is our sire.
Where
Buffy's beauty shines, we praise its
light,
and where a bulb has dimmed,
plead "swap it out."
It's not for
Buffy's honor that we fight
with pointy
language -- yet we are devout . .
.
. . . to what the Vampire Slayer has
aspired.
And should good
Whedon's team forsake their vows
and lose
their cool, clear vision -- become mired
on
paths less beautiful -- we won't be
cows.
A fealty to the highest
quality:
the Buffyverse depends on you and
me.
Clicking
<SUBMIT>, he wanders aimlessly away from his
desk
leaving behind a note which reads:
I'LL BE BACK AT TEA
TIME
you
speak
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Responses
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Tea Time has begun at
...
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 21, 2002, 7:03
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http://www.buffy.com/bronze_posts.jsp?tid=47816
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May I suggest a topic?
| Posted by:
Pleasant
Guest - Mar 21,
2002, 6:09 PM |
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an ode celebrating the
genius of BtVS writers, cast and crew? (wicked
smile)
we missed you in chat last night.
(sulk)
smilest thou?
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I
certainly admire you for using the sonnet
form
| Posted by:
Tallian - Mar 21, 2002, 3:37
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It's too demanding for
my talents, I'm more of a limerick person. So I wrote
one just for you:
An ancient vampire from
Nantucket
Had to carry his fangs in a
bucket.
Asked if he could bite
If she puts up a
fight,
Said "I just hang on tight, then suck
it".
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FOOTNOTES FOR SONNET #3
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 21, 2002, 3:31
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NOTE: The rhetorical
verse above is in Shakespearean sonnet
form.
NOTE: Being abandoned by the British,
California now claims Tea Time as our own.
Tea Time in L.A. is, by proclamation, 4:00 PM --
Pacific time, obviously.
<g>
BRONZE-LINKS TO PREVIOUS
SONNETS:
#1 Beyond
"Normal
Again"
http://www.buffy.com/bronze_posts.jsp?tid=46649
#2
Riley & Sam's
Grown-up-itude
http://www.buffy.com/bronze_posts.jsp?tid=47071
NOTE:
Replies include insightful rhyming couplets by
prunehilda
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