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Aoril 2015
Janice Canerdy
jlcanerdy@yahoo.com
I am a retired high-school English teacher from Potts Camp, Mississippi. Life in general and my grandchildren in particular inspire me to write. I especially enjoy writing--and reading--rhymed, metered poetry and mourn its near-demise. I get a real charge out of parodying the famous poems I taught my students--while keeping a perfectly straight face and assuring them that studying such noble literature would greatly enhance their lives. I stay busy with a variety of activities at home and church. 

Parody No. 1 of Emily Dickinson's  
Because I could not stop for Death...


Because I blew him off the road,
He straightway ran me down,
Said, "Eighty in a fifty zone!"
Wearing such a frown.

He slowly wrote; he knew no haste,
And I'd become resigned.
I knew that I'd be lectured well
And subsequently fined.

Returning home I passed the school
And fields of gazing grain,
"No speeding now," I told myself.
"From such I must refrain."

While I beheld the setting sun,
Bemoaning my bad luck, 
A swelling of the ground jumped up
And made me wreck my truck.

Since then 'tis been a week, yet I
Surmise 'tis still not fixed.
But walking really is a joy.
I could've been deep-sixed. 



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