by Con Chapman
She is a thing of beauty. Stella Artois ad, depicting woman drinking beer
A Thing of Beauty is a Beer Forever, John Keats
A thing of beauty is a beer forever:
Its foamy head increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will leave
A residue upon the glass, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, belches, and late-night peeing.
She Burps in Beauty, Like a Frog, Lord Byron
She burps in beauty, like a frog
Who sits on lily pad so green,
Resounding nightly in his bog
But to my beery eyes unseen;
Thus mellow'd by a Stella Artois
I urge her not to make a scene.
My Luve's Like a Cold, Cold Beer, Robert Burns
O my Luve's like a cold, cold beer
That's newly poured for me;
O my Luve's like an I.P.A.
A barkeep gives to me for free.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
Another to me is more dear:
I drink you in with thirsty eyes
But still I need imported beer.
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O, if only you had rhymed lass
with ass,
twould have maybe
added some class! Alas!
"...That a barkeep gives me for free...." Metre, Con, metre! A barkeep gives for free? A barkeep gives me free? Ha! I wrote a couple villanelles a few months back with apologies to Elizabeth Bishop, "The art of boozing isn't just for bastards..." It's a fun exercise to play with metre and rhyme and mess with other people's lines. Clever work, and amusing.
Maybe "A barkeep gives to me for free."
As somebody once said, write drunk, edit sober.
. . . you know you're spending too much time in a bar when the bartender gives you a free beer.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
--Benjamin Franklin
am feeling hurt bc you left out peroni & pasolini