Now Kiss Me, Dear! It May Be, Now! (Now, I Tell You, Now!!!!)

      Q:  So, Doctor J, why haven't you written any poetry lately?

      A:  For fear it might turn out something like this.   Possibly, even probably, the worst sonnet-sequence EVER. D'Oh!  

      Yes, that's George Meredith at the left, one of the reasons the word "Victorian" has so many distasteful associations. I dare you to read some more of his stuff. "A stew's a stew" is a phrase so brilliant only a President could do it justice.   (RK, perhaps you should use Georgy-Porgy as your whipping-boy example of Bad Poetry. Eh?)