Current state of my backyard

"cletus44 aka Clayton Seams" (cletus44)
06/08/2015 at 10:37 • Filed to: None

Living that old car life.

DISCUSSION (14)

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > cletus44 aka Clayton Seams
06/08/2015 at 10:52

I was driven thence by foul winds for a space of 9 days upon the sea, but on the tenth day we reached the land of the Lotus beaters, who drive on a frame that rusts like a kind of cancer. ... I sent two of my company to see what manner of cars the rides of the place might be, and they had a third man under them.

They started at once, and went about among the Lotus beaters, which did them no hurt, but it came to them to wrench on the Lotus, which was so decrepit that those who wrenched of it left off caring about home, and did not even want to go back and say what had happened to them, but were for staying and wiring Lucas on the Lotus beaters without thinking further of their return; nevertheless, though they wept bitterly I forced them back to the cars and made them swear off the British.

Then I told the rest to get back in the Newport at once, lest any of them should wrench of the Lotus and leave off wanting to get home, so they took their places and smote the dark asphalt with their tires.

- (“The Oppossey”)

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/08/2015 at 10:53

I am a very sick man.

64Mali > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/08/2015 at 11:18

Too tired to check did you write it in classical dactylic hexameter ? Otherwise good job on the poem.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 64Mali
06/08/2015 at 11:21

I reworked the English version available via Wiki - which probably isn’t, and I didn’t check. I kept the syllable structure/etc. the same as that for the most part.

64Mali > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/08/2015 at 11:22

Probably Iambic Pentameter. Man who knew taking mythology in high school would pay off over 10 years later.