Godawfulpoetry Fortnight piece

So Godawfulpoetry Fortnight is back for 2009. Details about it can be found here. Go read.
When it was announced, I’d decided to do a mashup of pop lyrics from my carefree youth. So, this is my one and only entry to this Fortnight made up of bits and pieces from Backstreet Boys, Boyzone, N’Sync, the Spice [...]

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Robinson – Weldon Kees

This category is for those pieces of writing (excerpts, novels, poems, plays, flash fiction, etc., etc.) that I’ll never write but would gladly string myself up on a tree for nine full nights to have written. 
Robinson
The dog stops barking after Robinson has gone.
His act is over. The world is a gray world,
Not without violence, and [...]

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Exhibit A

And the little doggerel this image inspired on Orkut: 
If my boy is to die some day,
by God I’d rather he
were re-made in the only way
man was meant to be.
His tan preserved in Kaiserling,
his squishy bits now hardened
with polymers before the curing,
when done he’ll be smartened:
A new haircut, a pedicure,
a suit suitably slick,
and the one thing [...]

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