This book of funny and clever parodies will have you laughing, smiling, and nodding your head. It pokes fun at Whitman with "I Sing the Body Bubonic," at Poe with "The Raving," at Dante with "Declined Comedy," at Coleridge with "Rime of the Ancient Maintenance Man,"—and at Emily Dickinson, Shelley, Frost, Donne, Wordsworth, e.e. cummings, Robert Service, and Blake.Here's the beginning of "The Androyd" (after Blake);The AndroydAndroyd, Androyd, lasered brightThrough the vacuum of the night,What impossible pedigreeCould ruin your immortality?From what distant ooze or thighsBurned the fire from your eyes?With what neuron did it conspireTo crush you with celestial fire?And what sympathy and which artCould slay you for your lack of heart?Then as your parts dispersed in spaceDid a smile stretch on its face?. . . .Other comic verse breaks between the parodies such as "Starbucks":StarbucksCaffeineline upshuffle leanorder cuphissing machinedebit habitinside slurpbolt like rabbitoutside burp.