Jason: I shot an arrow into the air.... it fell to earth, in Paige's hair.
Voice: Are you familiar with the phrase "beat poet"?!
Jason: I shot another arrow into the air...
Oh, Jason. If you shot an arrow into Paige’s hair in yesterday’s or day before yesterday’s strip, and got chased by Paige, shouldn’t you just give up archery? Go with a more sophisticated and civilized sport. Like… oh, I don’t know… chess.
4deerinmyyard: It really is forced, isn’t it? He didn’t seem to worry that much about meter. My favorite of his is The Chamber Over the Gate, which has the meter but sounds almost like doggerel. I guess it’s the thoughts in those poems that make them great, not the music.
tbree over 15 years ago
Poetic Justice (?) or Poetic License!
shagless2 over 15 years ago
Has he ever heard of the Dead Poet’s society? He is about to be inducted by his sister.
Rakkav over 15 years ago
…and where it falls, he does not care!
LibrarianInTraining over 15 years ago
I love that poem “The Arrow and the Song”!
We had to memorize it in high school English, and I still recite it to myself sometimes.
makariosTX over 15 years ago
LAME.
mbne08 over 15 years ago
I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.
by henry wadsworth longfellow
Templo S.U.D. over 15 years ago
Oh, Jason. If you shot an arrow into Paige’s hair in yesterday’s or day before yesterday’s strip, and got chased by Paige, shouldn’t you just give up archery? Go with a more sophisticated and civilized sport. Like… oh, I don’t know… chess.
josh_bisbee over 15 years ago
The problem with chess is that nobody can give him a challenge.
Ray_C over 15 years ago
A more sophisticated and civilized sport, like rugby?
yyyguy over 15 years ago
cage fighting
yyyguy over 15 years ago
though i remember a bumper sticker that said, “Give Blood. Play Rugby.”
Sternvogel over 15 years ago
I sneezed a sneeze into the air. It fell to Earth I know not where. But hard and cold were the looks of those In whose vicinity I snoze.
– Author undetermined
lewisbower over 15 years ago
Paige deserves everything she gets
LibrarianInTraining over 15 years ago
Sternvogel, that poem you quoted was written by Merwyn Bogue AKA Ish Kabibble.
Still funny, though!
mrprongs over 15 years ago
“For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song?”
Superman?
4deerinmyyard over 15 years ago
Librarian said, …that poem you quoted was written by Merwyn Bogue AKA Ish Kabibble.
Still funny, though!
And with better meter than Longfellow’s version.
Ray_C over 15 years ago
4deerinmyyard: It really is forced, isn’t it? He didn’t seem to worry that much about meter. My favorite of his is The Chamber Over the Gate, which has the meter but sounds almost like doggerel. I guess it’s the thoughts in those poems that make them great, not the music.
4deerinmyyard over 15 years ago
I’m old-fashioned. I like his story-poems–Evangeline, Miles Standish, Paul Revere. (But not Hiawatha.) Also Arsenal at Springfield.
unidawn10 over 15 years ago
Jason really needs to stop bothering Paige before she really hurts him.
jimboylan over 12 years ago
I shot an arrow in the air. It stuck. Darned smog.