Joyce Kilmer, updated by John Leo:
Versified and rhythmic non-prose verbal arrangements are fashioned by people of alternative intelligence such as myself, but only the divine entity, should he or she actually exist, can create a solar-shielding park structure from low-rise indigenous vegetative material.
John Leo, a very funny, very serious writer whose columns were among the few things worth reading in the newspaper1 before the turn of the century, died earlier this month. His collection Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police2 is fun to browse through.
(Via Kim Du Toit.)
Notes
- His primary venue was U.S. News and World Report, but the Wichita paper, back before it became complete trash, frequently reprinted his articles, and that is where I encountered them.
- The first edition is cheaper, but it’s missing some later essays.