Grant reads a few lines from a favorite poem: “A New Song of New Similes by John Gay. It also appears in the front of the book Intensifying Similes in English. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “A New Song of New Similes”
Martha, do you know the poem by John Gay called A New Song of New Similes?
No.
It’s superb, and I’ll just read the first part of it to you, and you can go Google it.
The first part goes,
My passion is as mustard strong, I sit all sober sad,
Drunk as a piper all day long, or like a March Hare, mad.
Nice.
Aw, that has me grinning like a mule eating briars.
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