Poetry emotion.
June 11th, 2010 // 2:41 pm @ andy // No Comments yet
Hello there. Now I think I’ve mentioned before my deep hatred of crap poetry in advertising. In fact, I know I have. I mentioned it fairly firmly in a post called ” poet, lorry, hate.” a while back. However, it seems that regardless of everything I’ve said, some copywriters are still intent on churning it out. This latest abomination from McDonalds is a case in point. Directly after is a response from the respected poet E.J.Thribb ( 17½ ). I couldn’t have put it better myself.
And those who watched their big TVs
and swore through tightly gritted teeth
and tore their hair in deep despair
and threw themselves behind a chair
Were just pissed off
And watching on those same TVs
they cried out “Shove your Maccy Ds
your Flurrys and your poetry
where no sun shines and piss off please!”
We’re just pissed off.
E.J.Thribb 17½
Good God. I’ve just watched the ad again and am now forced to add another point. In the bit where our poet says “Financial clerk” , he pronounces it “clurk” to rhyme with “work”.
Well I’m terribly sorry but we pronounce that word “clark”. Why? Because we’re not bloody Americans, that’s why.
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