4/07/2011

Poetry from Start to Finish

Email Submitted by Lara:

Good day.  I'm sort of an amateur poet and I was inspired to write the following for you upon reading your profile and experiencing your pictures:

It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

It's just a little something I wrote after seeing your profile.  Please accept it.  I'm a part-time music school administrator and part-time music tutor.  Full time, I'm a human on this planet.

I invite you to visit my profile and see if we're a match.  I'm Spencer, and welcome to my beautiful world.

Yours,
Spencer


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Lara Responds:

Hi Spencer.

Thanks for the welcome to your beautiful world and for the poem.  It seems very similar to William Shakespeare's 116th sonnet.  What do you make of that?

Lara


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Spencer Responds:

Fuck you I'm Shakespeare.
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9 comments:

  1. churro4/07/2011 9:23 AM

    Strong comeback, Spencer. I daresay I didn't think you were the Bard, but now I'm convinced.

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  2. Anonymous4/07/2011 11:28 AM

    Ooooh, I love that poem! What an idiot to think he could take one of the most well known poems ever and claim he wrote it. People are so funny.

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  3. Howie Feltersnatch4/07/2011 11:35 AM

    Clearly he's a fake...

    Bill Shakespeare would have wrote "Fucketh you"

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  4. Ashley4/07/2011 1:54 PM

    Truly a sketchy email but that was one fantastic response by Spencer (Or is it spender as it is in the last part!)

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  5. Anonyme4/07/2011 2:18 PM

    Shakespeare always signed of as 'Bill', so clearly a fake.

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  6. Claire (and Nikki)4/07/2011 3:31 PM

    I'll admit, I didn't know it was Bill's poem. Not a fan of his sonnets, honestly. Still gotta give Spencer his propers for a great comeback. (No sarcasm)

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  7. theMediator4/07/2011 5:18 PM

    At what point do people not realize that the first thing someone is going to do is pop a line or two into google and see what comes out?

    Also, for the record, poetry isn't that bloody hard.

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  8. girlwithface6/20/2011 2:30 PM

    To sum up most of these e-mails:

    Roses are red
    Violets are blue
    Reply to my message
    So we can screw

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  9. TechRyze1/05/2014 2:25 PM

    Highlight, right-click > Search Google for...

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