Okay, it's late Tuesday night as I type this, so once I finish this entry, I'll finally be caught up! Well, at least until tomorrow night, anyway. Thanks for putting up with all this.

Rather than reprinting yet another one of my earlier works, I've decided I want to share somebody else's work with you. Hey, this is my journal, so I get to do whatever I want, right? Besides, I need to save some of my writings for the next time I'm trying to catch up. <wry smile>

So. This is by that ever-popular poet, Anonymous, who wrote this Middle English work sometime in the 13th-14th century. For unknown reasons, its chorus has been running through my head lately. It is a fairly catchy little number...

Note, by the way, that "he" in line seven (and seventeen) means "she." Ah, for the days of gender-free pronouns...

On the other hand, I spent too much time typing the above to do the sensible thing and scrap it all and start from scratch. So, let me leave you with this little ditty from the final installment of The English 150 Song Book:

I am the very model of a modern deconstructionist
I always fight for progress, I am never an obstructionist
At meetings of the faculty, they think I'm kind of radical
But now I have my tenure and I'm never on sabbatical!

I relish the unraveling of texts which seem to mean a lot
It's always entertaining and a thrill to show that they do not
I make use of semiotics and I understand that words are signs
It's droll how many phallic symbols lurk in commonplace designs!

The rest of the department ought to come to terms with what is new
Instead of clinging stubbornly to their outdated point of view
In short, I fight for progress, I am never an obstructionist
I am the very model of a modern deconstructionist!