Ozy and Millie: Good verses, bad
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Notes: White-out and pasted-in dialog corrections in the last panel. This original is a little smaller than most of the others — about 4.5×16 inches.
The early days of rap?
The rhymes make it a “skeltonic” verse. (No, it’s nothing to do with skeletons.)
Is it anything to do with Clem Kadiddlehopper?
Skeltonic Verse is named after its creator, English poet John Skelton (1460-1529). Skelton tutored King Henry the Eighth when he was just a prince, spent time in prison, was censured by the Church and in general, seemed to have a great amount of fun.
Oooo, the Vogons are gonna be SO mad when they find out Llew’s father has been copping their verses.
( See if they don’t! )
Speaking of Vogons I’ve translated a single line of Jeltz poem.
“The micturations are to me” means something like “people are peeing in my direction.”
It doesn’t always need a whole century, either. If you look at music and films from just a few decades ago, the ones we remember often failed to make number 1.
Just as insanity and brilliance are interwoven.