Fiction

[khana]

Harry Birthday, shiun!

Magst du dir ein Drabble wünschen?
(oder bin ich dir sogar noch eins schuldig? ^^" Mit Giles oder sowas...?)


Anyway, because herbstchen asked for poems, I typed up one that we read in English and that I couldn't find on the net. It's kind of a meta-poem. Don't run away after the first verse, which might seem somewhat pointless. It gets better, and the whole thing is a lovely confusing mess. Heh.

Peter Reading
Fiction

Donald is a fictitious character
arrived at an age and bodily state
rendering suicide superfluous,
would rather sip Grands Crus than throw leg.
He is a writer of fiction. He says
'Even one's self is wholly fictitious.'
Hatred once drew him to satiric verse
but he could think of nothing to rhyme with
'Manageress of the Angel Hotel',
or 'I call my doctor "Killer" Coldwill'
(a fictitious name, 'Coldwill', by the way),
or 'Headmaster of the Secondary Mod.'

Donald has created a character
called 'Donald' or 'Don' who keeps a notebook
dubbed 'Donald's Spleneticisms', e.g.:
'Complacent as a Country Town G.P.',
'Contemptible as Country Council Clerks',
'A hateful little Welshman shared my train
with no lobes to his ears and yellow socks',
'Seedy as Salesmen of Secondhand Cars'.

In Donald's novel, 'Don' writes poetry—
titles such as 'It's a Small World', 'Fiction',
'Y – X', 'Remaindered', which he sends
to literary periodicals
under the nom de plume 'Peter Reading'
(the present writer is seeking advice
from his attorney, Donald & Donald).
This fictitious bard has a doctor called
'Coldwill' who sleeps with the manageress
of the Angel (and sues 'Don' for libel).

In Donald's novel, 'Don' (whose nom de plume
is 'Peter Reading') sues a man whose real
name is 'Peter Reading' for having once
written a fiction about a poet
who wrote a verse concerning a novelist
called 'Donald' whose book 'Fiction' deals with 'Don'
(a poet who writes satirical verse
and is sued by an incompetent quack,
the manageress of a pub, a Celt
with lobeless ears and yellow socks, acned
Council clerks and a Range Rover salesman).

In 'Reading's' fiction, the poet who writes
verse concerning the novelist 'Donald'
is sued by the latter who takes offence
at the lines '… an age and bodily state
rendering suicide superfluous,
would rather sip Grand Crus than throw his leg'.
For the Defence, 'Donald, Q.C.' says that
'Even one's self is wholly fictitious'.

Comments

[shiun.livejournal.com]

Dankeschön! ^^

Ich glaube, ich hatte mir bei der Drabbleschreibaktion eines gewünscht, aber das ist okay, ich habe die meisten von meinen Wünschen auch noch nicht erfüllt. ^^; Giles und Willow gen war es, glaube ich?

[khana.livejournal.com]

jap, sowas.
und das da oben war so gemeint, dass du dir noch eins wünschen darfst, auch wenn ich sowieso schon eins im rückstand bin... :)
also, wenn du willst.