____________________________________________________________________________________
The humor of Mrs. Carpeo
Is always to be trusted
Regarding Godfather
She whispered
"This smoker got busted
And tell you this, I gotta:
The piece is terra cotta."
Jean Baptiste Carpeaux
The Smoker
(1863)
Our Godfather's name
rhymes with Harpo
but our name
is pronounced
Car-P-O
____________________________________________________________________________________
As true of all media, a misquote
ReplyDeleteMr. CarPeo stands corrected: Mrs. C did not
Deleteactually rhyme "gotta" with "terra cotta"
but sometimes a dreamscape
imitates art.