"Ode to Shirley"

"Ode to Shirley Schmidt" - inspired by Shoetopia Citizen's poem about Orlando, and just to further please, it's full of lovely, feminine, internal rhymes and melifluous (also pronounced mel-i-flu-ous, also pronounced mel-if-lu-ous, also pronounced me-lif-lu-ous.......) sestets like "The Raven"!

Shirley, oh, Shirley, her eyes are pearly,

Her hair is golden, not all that olden,

She's more pretty than Vatican City,

Shirley, she's awesome, tough, clean, and fit,

She's kind, coy, and cool, will always commit,

To me it's Shirley, but to you "It's Schmidt."

 

She's adorable, not deplorable,

Persona hotter than Arizona,

But don't get her enraged, won't be assuaged,

Shirley, she's true, sincere, and legit,

She's sharp, shrewd, and smart, smooth you must admit,

To me it's Shirley, but to you "It's Schmidt."

 

Her style is ritzy, her life is glitzy,

She's more delicious than superstitious,

Shirley's proficient, more than sufficient,

Shirley, she's matured, but not just to knit

She's passionately partying a bit,

To me it's Shirley, but to you "It's Schmidt."

BL Quote

Denny: I "misplaced" a client once.

Alan: Did they ever find him?

Denny: No, I made sure to ship him off to some country with no extradition.  Practically a deserted island off the coast of South America.  He sends me Feliz Cumpleaños cards every year.

Alan: That's thoughtful.  Sounds like a paradise actually.  Living on an island.  A much simpler life.

Denny: Especially if it's an island where the natives run around the beach with their boobies hanging out.

BAS

Here are the Poetry Final grades (for everyone except KL who hasn't taken it yet) followed by their new, overall percentage.

~ GM - 78%, 88%

~ OH - 72%, 75%

~ LJ - 81%, 74%

~ KL - NA, 95%

~ MeM - 98%, 96%

~ MaM - 90%, 82%

~ AM - 74%, 79%

FYI: The final, final, final, final................................... groups for Non-Fiction are:

~ MaM and LJ ... Lincoln's "Second Inaugural Address"

~ MeM and OH ... Douglass' "My Escape From Slavery"

~ MG and AM ... Emerson's "Self-Reliance"

~ DH and KL ... Thoreau's "Nature"

~ DH and KL ... Chesnut's "A Wartime Journal"

Here's what the schedule looks like for the Non-Fiction Unit:

~ 3-11 ... Begin Non-Fiction Unit, computer lab, research

~ 3-13 ... Computer lab, research

~ 3-18 ... Presentations, participation grades (38 points) for project issued

~ 3-20 ... Non-Fiction Earth Party Review

~ 3-25 ... Non-Fiction Final (116 points)

Tags: Life, Poems, ASB, BL, SHIRLEY SCHMIDT