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There are two nonsense poems in Reading Claudius…

… the memoir about UD’s Northwestern University professor, Erich Heller. I’ll have more to say today about the book and the memories it stirred, but the nonsense poems inspired me to try one of my own.

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Every black pit bull speaks some Lithuanian. 
If you try to engage them in Lett, or Ukrainian 
They’ll look at you rudely, as if you’re insanian. 

The custom’s quite different among Pomeranians: 
With them it is Latvian during their trainian. 
Polish? Or German? They claim it’s arcanian. 

With lhasas it’s loopy because they’re Lacanian. 
They’ll mirror your speech act whatever you’re sayingin – 
A curious feature too hard to explainian. 

Whatever the tongue of your canine campanian 
Conversing with them will transcend entertainingian 
And move straight to the realm of the supermundanian.
Margaret Soltan, August 9, 2020 11:16AM
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2 Responses to “There are two nonsense poems in Reading Claudius…”

  1. Jeremy Bangs Says:

    Nice. There is, I think, a typo: Pomeranians

  2. UD Says:

    Thanks, Jeremy. I’ll fix it.

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