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• • Jon Dron@jond

  

  Jon Dron May 17, 2012 - 9:51am

  Good to see baited breath as a misspelling of 'bated breath coming up yet again as it provides an opportunity to share this delightful poem, Cruel Clever Cat, by Geoffrey Taylor:

  Sally, having swallowed cheese
  Directs down holes the scented breeze
  Enticing thus with baited breath
  Nice mice to an untimely death.

• • sarah beth@sarahma108

  

  sarah beth May 17, 2012 - 4:57pm

  Ha! I love the poem and the picture. :) 

   

  (I get a good, juvenile giggle about being asked to "bare with me," too. Is there a poem for that one?)

• • Jon Dron@jond

  

  Jon Dron May 17, 2012 - 5:33pm

  There should be - that's one that needs to be written!

  Of course, thanks to the wonder of the InterWeb, it is no surprise to find that something like that has happened already though, I fear, sometimes unwittingly. For your delight and delectation, some of the finest poetry you may never have heard...

  http://www.gspoetry.com/baby-bare-with-me-spokenword-poems-160988.html

  http://www.gspoetry.com/bare-with-me-emotional-poems-443667.html

  Rather more wittingly but of a similar genre...

  http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/poem_detail.aspx?ID=238615

  http://www.gspoetry.com/bare-with-me-spiritual-poems-413127.html

  Though technically the malapropism here is not part of the poem so should really be disqualified, perhaps the finest poetic moment I've found in my 3 minutes of research into this genre comes from...

  http://katie-katiedidit.blogspot.ca/2009/01/poem-i-wrotejust-bare-with-me.html

• • sarah beth@sarahma108

  

  sarah beth May 17, 2012 - 6:30pm

  Jon, I think you've made an exciting literary discovery. There could be a paper in this --

  "The brews on my sole was more than I could bare": Homophone misuse, angst, and the poetry of the internet age