Poetry Corner


Human Nature: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
[Ralph Waldo Emerson in the essay "Self-Reliance", 1841, quoted in Doppelganger by Naomi Klein, 2023]

Pithy Sayings


In Memoriam Kenneth
Wood, inventor of the
"Kenwood" Mixer and
the Reversible Toaster.

So. Farewell then
Ken Wood.

Inventor of the
Reversible
Toaster.

Reversible the of
Inventor
Wood Ken.

Then farewell
So.

E.J. Thribb, inventor of the
Reversible Poem (½71)


Published in Private Eye, Number 936, 31 October 1997, page 19.


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