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Contests : Wergle Flomp Free Poetry Contest : Past Winners : 2003 : Mark Orr
VANITY! ALL'S IS VAINITY
by Napoleon Brandy
WhInce a pome eye rote come very pritty,
Make me tINGly way doun in me titty
Get way up MAY to ye nitty-gritty
Colon is hardly ever sArce of sPitty.
Art fer art is awful very stupid
SendinG Off yer pomes so lupid
To a contest that yoo no too bee very woopid
Makes yoo no yoO have been dupid
Get a letter, gess I bin excepted
Ev'rybody else ennyware wOOd have rejected
Bi the book an sit outside reed it nekkid
Send A czech yer credit wrecked.
Bette Davis and Jone crawferd
Hak away at pOOr peter LAwferd
In they're grave thay all remain tawferd
PRINT MY lousy POME JUST Lyke it awferred!
Sail me books to sho me naybers
Excellently rote me these laybouRS
tARZan call a I WANT MY MOMMY lioness sabors
Ennywon will doo me fabours
Sent as a joke to poetry.com,
this poem received an honorable mention in the 2003
Wergle Flomp parody poetry contest sponsored by Winning Writers.
About Mark Orr
Mark Orr is a native Southerner, born in Alabama, reared in Tennessee.
He has a BA in British History from the University of Tennessee.
He resides near Nashville with one wife and three daughters.
He is the editor of Miscellaneous Ramblings Magazine, managing editor of a literary agency
(The Star Chamber), and has published stories, reviews and articles in Inscriptions Magazine,
FUTURES Mysterious Anthology Magazine, The Murder Hole, the Gallows at the
Horror Authors Network, Nevermore Magazine and the newsletter of the
Nashville chapter of Sisters
in Crime.
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