(urth) Hunter of the East

[David Stockhoff]

On 11/14/2011 5:00 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> Now I'm going to have to do some Nashian verse, aren't I?
>
> This is a poem to celebrate Gene,
> who writes books that are difficult and modern but rarely obscene.
> Some people dislike books Lupine,
> but I think they're divine
> even if I sometimes can't figure out what they mean.
> But that problem is for me, not Gene.
>
> He wrote about a torturer named Severian,
> who had a memory that reminds me of a planarian,
> because a planarian who eats another planarian that planarian's memory gains,
> and so does Severian when he eats someone's brains.
> This doesn't mean that Severian is a zombie or otherwise undead;
> he just lives with a community inside his own head.
>
> Aside from Severian there is also Able,
> who is like a knight of the Round Table,
> except that his table isn't round, and his king is Arnthor, not Arthur,
> and Arthur's knights searched the whole world but Able went even farthur.
> He declared himself a knight and went out to have adventures
> though it turned out that he was in some sort of indentures.
>
> Then there is Number Five
> who somehow manages to survive
> a long time in a prison or penitentiary.
> His tale is pretty scary.
> He thought he was living his life on his own,
> but he was really just another clone.
>
> Silk is the Patera of a poor manteion
> that the rich of Viron wouldn't even bother to peion.
> Of all Gene's main characters Silk is the nicest,
> and the best place to startest if you takest my advicest;
> He leads his people from a hopeless present to a hopeful futurity
> but he himself turns into an obscurity.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 1:46 PM, David Stockhoff<dstockhoff at verizon.net>  wrote:
>> On 11/14/2011 4:14 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
>>>> David Stockhoff: Next up: Joyce Kilmer!
>>> Heh!
>>>
>>> I think that I shall never see
>>> A poem lovely as a tree.
>>>
>>> A tree covered in parasitic vines
>>> Neighbors and inhumi if you read the signs
>>>
>> The tree will soon become his prey
>> Six-armed Gods, to fade away.
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>
>
> Hideous. Somebody send it to Gene!