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Jeffery and Jeorge

This morning Jeorge wrote a double dactyl (Wiffity Woffity (A Double Dactyl)), which is a very odd and difficult poetry form to write. But it's not the poetry form itself that interested me; it was the topic of the poem. Jeorge implies in his poem that it was the voracious appetites of wolves like Jeffery that drove the dodo birds to extinction. The truth is, Jeorge is using his poem as a form of rhetoric to blow the entire situation way out of proportion. It is as though Jeorge was shaking his head and wagging an index finger at Jeffery in a scolding fashion...except, of course, dodo birds don't have index fingers, so it's a metaphorical finger-wagging.

For all who are concerned about the inflammatory content of Jeorge's poem...to the best of my knowledge, Jeffery has never in his life eaten a dodo bird, and Jeorge is perfectly safe without flying away to the shores of the Mediterranean.

Okay, Jeffery, I wrote the disclaimer...you can stop chewing on my leg now!

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