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Re: Axolotl poem
I have a 7 cd set of all mad magazines- I'll try to find it sometime.
c
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Zvonar" <zvonar@zvonar.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 10:16 AM
Subject: Axolotl poem
> There's a parody of Wordsworth's "The Daffodils" that appeared in Mad
> Magazine circa 1958. This is as much of it as I can reconstruct. Does
> anyone know the rest?
>
>
> I wandered lonely as a clod
> Just picking up old rags and bottles,
> when on the lonely road I trod
> I came upon some axolotls.
> Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
> A sight to make a man's blood freeze.
>
> Some had handles, some were plain-
> they were orange, pink, and green, in the main.
> My hair stood up, my blood ran cold.
> I fled with fear upon my soul.
> I find my solace now in bottles,
> and I forget them axolotls.
>
>
> --
>
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