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Use Your Allusion

This is from the item about William McGonagall—by some lights, the world's "worst" poet—in today's PoFo News:

"I'm sure there will be a lot of interest in the paintings because they are presented almost in a comic book format with lots of buried jokes and illusions."

Illusions!

Read it all here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/6525913.stm

And there's a whole website dedicated to McGonagall, where, if you're "a real glutton for punishment," you can sign up to have a bit of inimitable McG verse sent to you daily:

http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/

All together now:

Oh, mighty city of New York, you are wonderful to behold—
Your buildings are magnificent-- the truth be it told—
They were the only thing that seemed to arrest my eye,
Because many of them are thirteen storeys high;
And as for Central Park, it is lovely to be seen—
Especially in the summer season when its shrubberies are green...

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