Parody
A parody is humorous imitation of someone else's writing style. In poetry, the poet often takes the shape of the original poem and changes some or most of the words. Sometimes this is done to mock the original poet's way of writing, but at other times it's just a way of having fun.


Excellent Example:

*additional examples: ANY Weird Al Yankovic songs...they're songs...but lyrically serve the same purpose as a poem.

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Cop my stuff, mayne!

My first chapbook: "This Chapbook Was Made With Pilfered Office Products" available now - $6.00

My 2nd chapbook, coming in 2007: "Orgasms and Ice Cream"

fmi: http://www.myspace.com/delrica

For Binlahab, in honor of Michael Jackson:
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*sung to the tune of "I'll Be There"*

you and i
must make a pact
we must bring
my blackness back
i need self love
and melanin (melanin)
i reach out
my hand to you
it's as white
as elmer's glue
i need self love
and melanin (melanin)
i'll be there
to subject you
to help ya make your skin lighter
cuz brown skin you must fight-uh
i'll be there
with the chisel
i'll help you chip...that new chin dimple
(chin dimple, chin dimple, chin dimple, yes i will)
let me break open
the bleach cream
i'm not dr king
but i have a dream
i need self love
and melanin (melanin)
i'll be there to harass you
and grab my crotch while i run after you
where there are lil boys
i'll be there
i'll be there
to subject you
to help ya make your skin lighter
cuz brown skin you must fight-uh
i'll be there
with the chisel
i'll help you chip...that new chin dimple
<oh yes i will>
(chin dimple, chin dimple, chin dimple, yes i will)
if you should ever find
my old nose too
we'll put it back on
with some crazy glue
cuz i need self love
and melanin (melanin)
don't cha know baby yeah yeah
meeeeeellllllllaniiiiiiinnnnnnnn
meeeeeeeelllllllllannnnniiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnn
i need self love
and melanin (melanin)

© 2001, Delrica Andrews, all rights reserved.

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Cop my stuff, mayne!

My first chapbook: "This Chapbook Was Made With Pilfered Office Products" available now - $6.00

My 2nd chapbook, coming in 2007: "Orgasms and Ice Cream"

fmi: http://www.myspace.com/delrica

Wow. Has it really been a year already?!
I know I fully appreciated you posting these lessons last year, so thanks again


"my purpose is to make my soul rhyme with my mind" - Saul Williams

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Loose Lips Sink Ships!
*stop by, say hi*
http://shattered-star.blogspot.com

"in faith
we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail
among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous

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*I'm hella hella sexy*

Server Glitch (sung to the tune of Mr. Grinch)

You're a mean one, server glitch,
You really are a pain,
Your hard drive's full of nonsense, your expenses are a drain
Stupid glitch,
You're a poopy, moldy, time-wasting, disgusting, non-updated, anti-virus sandwich with a,
Doctor Watson stain!

You're a foul one, server glitch,
As foul as spam e-mails,
Your RAM is filled with spiders, your ROM Drive is slow as snails,
Lousy glitch,
Your motherboard, is an appalling dung-heap, full of the slowest, and most antiquated technology imaginable, mangled up,
And guaranteed to fail!

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."
- Robert Frost

http://inevitabletruth.blogspot.com/
http://www.lulu.com/content/187759
http://www.hdfest.com/Barry/allreviewsbarry.html
http://wishbonec.wordpress.com/

LMAO!!

Amen to the server glitch AMEN!!!

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Cop my stuff, mayne!

My first chapbook: "This Chapbook Was Made With Pilfered Office Products" available now - $6.00

My 2nd chapbook, coming in 2007: "Orgasms and Ice Cream"

fmi: http://www.myspace.com/delrica

for Nat'l Poetry month

www.anthologyfmn.com

Enter the Written World of Fahim Malik Nassar

The House of Caine (available)

Melancholoy Funk (available)

Tha Anthology (Words 2001-2003) Poetry inspired by OKP and Wash, DC
(available)

The Spook who sat by the Radio Poetry (av