"The Maven" (inspired by, well, you know)

[Spooky Spencer]

Started playing with words a while back and hit upon a neat idea, a modern play on a classic poem to see what I could get away with. I want to do the entire thing, but I want to make it right. So, for your humble praise or incited anger, here's how it begins:

‎"The Maven"

Once upon a midnight query, while I pondered Googling "dreary,"
Over many a novel and comic book strewn 'cross my bedroom floor--
While I frowned, nearly vexed, suddenly there came a text,
As of some one gently Tweeting, Tweeting thoughts unseen before,
"Tis some marketer," I muttered, "checking in on Square of Four,
Only this and nothing more."

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the fall September,
With a new school year’s homework assignments next to the clothes I wore.
Terribly I dreaded tomorrow;--textbooks I had sought to borrow
Lost from my library in sorrow--volumes I could not explore--
For the rare and important textbooks that the teachers did implore--
Useless now for evermore.


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Should I keep going or cut my losses and run?

[Grausamkeit]

I think it's funny. Keep going!

[ceb]

I agree with Grausamkeit. It's totally sober, but it has great word-play. (If you perhaps traversed an entire school year from beginning to end?) It does also speak of a passionless juxtaposition of boredom, literary style imitation, and educational school books.

Hmm, it has inspired me to desire a dry martini.

Thank you for the interesting read Mr. Spencer.

[Versus]

I am amused.