This is a parody on Gee Officer Krupke from West Side Story .
Dear Doctor Grumpee
Nobody knows
Why I'm hooked on this site
Writing poetry and prose .
I write sonnet and haiku
Short tanka and monoku
Golly gee , to me it's poetry flu .
Gee Doctor Grumpee , I'm spewing' out words
I know it sounds crazy and really absurd
I ain't no Shakespeare
Don't misunderstand
This weird word-flow ain't planned .
It ain't planned ; It ain't planned
It ain't planned ; It ain't planned
No.. It ain't planned .
NURSE ICEMAN ; " His symptoms are so gory ".
SISTER AKSHUN ;" Lemme tell it to the ward " .
NURSE ICEMAN ; " No! Tell it to the Surgeon " .
Dear Surgeon Flick-Knife
My words simply flowed
Epigram , quatrain
Tetractys and ode
Elegy ballade
Nonet and rhyme
Suffering scalpels ! , now I'm feeling fine .
Just another love poem
jotted so arrogantly down on page
blotted ink and emotional stink
recorded wastefully for my age
I could go on about you
your grace, face, all of the above-- and below
but would these words be true
or callous inventions with lewd intentions
to make you blush and glow
oh sure, romance and dance
unjust lust and gypsy wine
coil your heart around my words
and we'll get along just fine
Brazen? Arrogant? Yes, that would be me
cast upon my rocks and shore, adore my reverie
they're just love poem words
Their emptiness would fill the sea.
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