I met a man from an antique land,
Who said - "Two vast and scuff'd poles of steel
Stand in the cupboard ... near them, on the floor,
Half hid a shattered vacuum lies, whose colour,
And wrinkled cord, and hole of gaping sucking,
And on the cardboard box, this legend clear:
My name is Benjamin, Cleaner of Cleaners,
Look on my Works ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing remains beside. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and dirty carpets stretch far away."
So I'm procrastinating. What's new?
1 comment:
I like it. However, if you must put an apostrophe in scuffed (which does add to the Shakespearean flavour, I must say), please drop a letter (convention dictates the e) to justify it.
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