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Roses are red, violets are blue, some laws rhyme, but this headline doesn’t
A new bill was introduced in Minnesota last month to allow the governor to appoint a poet laureate. And the ever-creative state legislators decided to have a little fun with the bill, putting into bad rhyme form. An example:
The Gov” shall appoint a state poet laureate,
Who shall serve for a four-year term.
Because this appointment will always be great,
There’s no need for the Senate to confirm….
The poet will be free to write rhyming lines,
With removal only for cause,
But we trust that the bard will promptly resign,
If the verse reads as badly as laws….
I discovered this via a link on Neil Gaiman’s journal, and he sums it up pretty well:
This Minnesotan law reads as if it was written by two different people. And that it should be sung by a Gilbert-and-Sullivanesque politician, with a chorus of lady lawmakers in the background.
