[New-Poetry] And a little trivia for the new year...

[Anny Ballardini]

Thank you Tad. My answer was a little less boastful. "Me" was conceived in 
the spirit of "Nobody" as indicated by Ulysses with Polyphemus. "Nobody is 
killing me either by treachery or brute violence!"
"Me" therefore is anybody and nobody and very probably used by both: Auden 
and Groucho Marx.


From: "TheOldMole" <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 8:14 PM


> They certainly both should have reference Anny. But the answer lies 
> elsewhere. It's mad Nijinksy, about shom Auden tells us that what he wrote 
> about Diaghilev is true of the human heart. and who appears on the 
> epidermis of  Lydia the tattooed lady doing the rhumba, right next to 
> Lydia's Social Security numba. Sung by Groucho, written by Harold Arlen 
> and E. Y. Harburg.
>
> For reasons obscure to me now, I was once invited to Yip Harburg's 
> Christmas party, which involved singing carols around the piano, with Yip, 
> octogenarian but still lively, at the piano. Among the guests was Paul 
> Robeson Jr., who looked very much like his father, had a deep baritone 
> voice...and couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.
>
>
>
> Anny Ballardini wrote:
>> _me_
>>   !
>>
>> From: "Halvard Johnson" <halvard at earthlink.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 7:18 PM
>>
>>
>>> Best guess: Shakespeare
>>> Second-best guess: Ogden Nash
>>>
>>> Hal
>>>
>>> "In America, it's the bottom of the ninth,
>>> we're five runs behind, there are two outs,
>>> nobody on base, weak hitter at the plate,
>>> and the fat lady's getting up to sing."
>>>                 --Anon.
>>>
>>> Halvard Johnson
>>> ================
>>> halvard at earthlink.net
>>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html
>>> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
>>> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
>>> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
>>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 1, 2008, at 3:42 PM, TheOldMole wrote:
>>>
>>>> Who is referenced by both Auden and Groucho Marx?
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Tad Richards
>>>> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
>>>> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
>>>>
>>>> The moral is this: in American verse,
>>>> The better you are, the pay is worse.
>>>> --Corey Ford