Marshall Begel
CONTACT:
Email: mbegel@lycos.com
BIO:
Marshall Begel became a serious poetry hobbyist when he found that bad jokes are better received when stretched out with meter and rhyme. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin and has had many pieces in the journals Light and Lighten Up Online.
Poetry
Tough Crowd
Louvre Considers Moving Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber To End ‘Public Disappointment'
-ArtNews.com
The Louvre is concerned its most popular piece, a
Small portrait of renaissance maid, Mona Lisa
Is causing museum-goers dissatisfaction
By keeping so many too far from the action
Despite doing all they could possibly do—
Namely, painting the chamber from yellow to blue.
Although she exemplified genius and vision
For 500 years, they have made a decision
Intending to save the prestige of the Louvre, it
Was clearly essential to physically move it
To someplace control of admission could help
Raise the masterwork's dwindling rating on Yelp.
Speaking Volumes
Poetry book 93 years overdue returned to Licking County Library
-The Newark Advocate
I'm sorry this return's so tardy,
But who could part with Thomas Hardy—
With hardship tales in metered rhyme
When poetry was in its prime?
So do not put me over barrels
For my love of Lewis Carroll's
Tale of one chimeric troupe
Expressing love for Turtle Soup.
If anyone's presumed at fault,
I'd place it on that poet, Walt.
Now verse, although emancipated,
Never leaves me satiated.
Only ancient books, you know,
Can fill my daily dose of Poe.
And limericks of Edward Lear
Grow funnier each passing year.
To lose this book—I couldn't bear it!
But I suppose it's time to share it.