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[Preston, Moderator]

Mister Puke-in makes me feel crappy,
the Complaint Department should make us happy.

[Preston, Moderator]

So let's change the subject to something nice
like elephants doing ballet on ice.

[Preston, Moderator]

Or if that subject is too neoclassic,
choose what you like just take your pick.

[Roger]

I like buildings that look like a radio,
Particularly neo-classic by Palladio,

[Roger]

Or copyists who created homes for madams,
Like Kenwood House near Highgate by Adams.

[Roger]

And then there are fantasies so rowdy,
Such as the Sagrada Família by Gaudi.

[Roger]

For real art, however, if you're feeling weary,
How about Bibao's Guggenheim by Frank Gehry?

[Preston, Moderator]

It's better than the Melbourne Opera House,
Which by comparison is an overlarge boathouse.

[Preston, Moderator]

But if you are a really big fan of color like Chagall,
New York's Metropolitan Opera House makes those look banal.

[[deleted user]]

Marc Chagall painted childhood dreams,
while Edward Munch colored skys with screams.

[Roger]

Marc Chagall invented the Fiddler on the Roof,
While Chaim Topol yelled the songs on the hoof.

[Roger]

Marc Chagall surrounded Bella in bundles of flowers
And cocooned her in love's own flowery bowers.

[Roger]

Meanwhile, I don't care how many people say it's a load of tosh,
I'll go surrealistically potty if I don't get to see Hieronymus Bosch.

https://www.bosch500.nl/en/the-event/...

[[deleted user]]

Bought with the blood of Incan Gold
Bosch's Garden painted while eating ergot.

[Roger]

Well, if we miss the show at Den Bosch we can always go
The other way south to Madrid and catch it at the Prado.

[[deleted user]]

You go. I'll wait in the Retiro. No need to fight.
500 Bosch paintings in one show, it could cause me much fright!

[Roger]

Only one greater would hold me in thrall,
The collected works of Marc Chagall.

[[deleted user]]

I was so lucky to see the work of Marc Chagall
In the 80s in Montreal.

[[deleted user]]

Marc Chagall was shy and found a friend in Apollinaire
A Russian and a Frenchman, made love with words caught from air.

[Preston, Moderator]

Oliver and Franco Frey founded a magazine,
with Oliver's lover Roger Kean.

[Preston, Moderator]

And they're both famous to this day,
with retro-gamers who love Oliver Frey

[Preston, Moderator]

and Roger for wonders that did transfix,
will full color art on games that were 8 bits.

[[deleted user]]

Jean Marais was Adonis in Cocteau's heart
Celluloid Heroes to steam and smart

[Roger]

Gosh, but this stuff is so high-falootin',
Artists, poets, painters all a-rootin'

[Roger]

For the meaning of life ’n’ stuff,
While all I can write is fluff.

[[deleted user]]

Liquor is quicker and candy dandy
The meaning of life is absurd!

[[deleted user]]

To dole out the doggerel
May make me mere mongrel.

[[deleted user]]

So let's patent this fluff
whilst we're still up to snuff.

[Preston, Moderator]

Hubert got the patent on fluff
which he used to overstuff

[Preston, Moderator]

M/M romance romance books
will sold like hot cakes to schnooks,

[Preston, Moderator]

Who wanted instalove and the big misunderstanding,
which has been the topmost longstanding,

[Preston, Moderator]

Romance book cliché M/M stories,
In Amazon's inventories.

[Preston, Moderator]

So quicker than you can say Shostakovich,
Hubert became filthy rich.

[Roger]

I tried and tried to be a winner
But they rejected me at Dreamspinner,

[Roger]

So I sent my story over to the people at Loose ID
Who wouldn't publish even if it was for free,

[Roger]

So I thought I couldn't possibly lose out at Riptide,
Who'd love Thunderbolt> and take it for a ride,

[Roger]

But "No," they said, "your writing sends us into a trance,
We cannot publish your stuff till you write M/M Romance."

[Roger]

All those rejections finally left me
With good old Amazon and KDP.

[Preston, Moderator]

You should try to write M/M fiction,
to present an accurate depiction,

[Roger]

How can I possible agree with the above?
I am not a writer of instalove.

[Roger]

I don't find M/M Romance across the Atlantic
Very convincing, nor is it really very romantic.

[[deleted user]]

I have not read enough to warrant a chorus
I like E.M. Forster's "Maurice"

[[deleted user]]

Romance as a literary era
Is not about happily eva-afta

[[deleted user]]

It's a caluclated derangement of the senses
To Rimbaud. To Oscar Wilde, he says it well:

[[deleted user]]

"Opportunity knocks and temptation
Leans on the doorbell."

[[deleted user]]

What is romantic about the New World?
We have a landscape of adventure!

[[deleted user]]

Stormy weather and stormy eyes
a climate of humid sweat and desert

[[deleted user]]

Romance is in the earth and skies here
Not so different from there.

[[deleted user]]

But the troubadour. The lover's lament.
Can transform to lonesome prairie songs.

[[deleted user]]

Romance needs long absence.
It thrives in absolutes and innocence.