<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421951" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Poet Goes to the Doctor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Doctor, doctor! Can't you help me please? <br>I'm suffering from a dreadful disease, <br>A rhyming disorder, and what makes it worse, <br>I can't help speaking or writing in verse! ! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">These sleepless nights of alliteration<br>Are causing me such consternation, <br>The assonance too is making me ill -<br>Please give me a potion or some kind of pill! ! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Calm down, my friend, no need to worry, '<br>The doctor replied, 'Don't be in a hurry, -<br>I've got the answer, - a good dose of prose<br>By the dullest of authors, everyone knows, <br>Will speedily remedy your inspiration<br>By giving you TWO YEARS of verbal constipation! ! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You can say goodbye to your fluent verse<br>As your poetry goes from bad to worse, <br>Don't change your mind and run to your Muse, <br>She won't grant your prayers, she'll simply refuse! ! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poetry is always a pain in the *rse, <br>But I promise you your illness will pass, <br>You'll just be a bore like the rest of us, <br>Scansion and metre? What an awful fuss! ! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Thorkild+Ellison">John Thorkild Ellison</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421951" data-title="A Poet Goes to the Doctor de John Thorkild Ellison" data-description="'Doctor, doctor! Can't you help me please? I'm suffering from a dreadful disease, A rhyming disorder, and what makes it worse, I can't help speaking or writing in verse! ! These sleepless nights of alliteration Are causing me such consternati..."></div> </div> </div>

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