“The she-seals seek the shore
to drop their pups aland.”
[That doesn’t really qualify as Found Poetry: first, because it was set as poetry to
begin with -- Kipling’s “Rhyme of the Three Sealers”; second, because what he actually wrote was “the matkas seek the shore” and so forth; a footnote explained that matkas means ‘she-seals’; and I substituted that, as it is a much
more evocative word that matkas,
which sounds rather like something Yiddish to eat. The result, though not Found Poetry, is a sort of Discovered
Tongue-Twister; and as such, I
bequeath it to literary history.]
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Kipling, chortling
at the way that Dr
Justice
has improved upon his
verse
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