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Pendragon
09-27-2007, 10:22 AM
Parody 3: Excelsior!

The shades of night were falling fast
as through the frightened bedroom passed
two parents worried about their teens,
who now had entered the “Dating scene”.

Mom was upset about Sara Jane
perhaps she was parked up some dark lane
with a guy whose hormones were in a rage,
who could not read a printed page!

Pop was thinking about Billy Joe
(They’d had that special talk last fall!)
He really didn’t mind if old Bill dated
as long as he didn’t get some girl impregnated!

They walked the floor and tore their hair,
they jumped at every creak of the stair,
they never understood in their fright
that their kids had stayed at home that night!

Dale Harris
© 9/15/97

AuntShecky
09-27-2007, 01:50 PM
This was cute, but pardon my ignorance what is the original work of which this is the parody?
I did a couple of parodies also. They were posted on a thread called "Parodies Found Your spoofs of classic works"
Auntie

CdnReader
09-27-2007, 02:11 PM
Love the ending, Pen. Thanks! :)

Pendragon
09-28-2007, 09:00 AM
Excelsior by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow which can be found here: http://www.bartleby.com/102/62.html

AuntShecky
09-28-2007, 11:10 AM
I shall look it up, Pen. Thanks!
Okay, I read it, and now I see how your parody works.
Good job.