This is not retirement sort of money on offer, but it is take a lady friend to dinner with a brandy afterwards sort of money.
One of my weirder gigs has come back to me and asked if I write poetry. No, I don’t. However, I have said that I know a couple of people who can do parodies. Take a well known poem then change (with rhyme and scansion) to produce a different message. They would obviously be parodies but that’s part of the fun.
Now, I can’t recall who it is that has dropped more than one of these into the comments over the years. But I know there’re a couple of you who seem to be able to turn out Shakespeare sonnets, or Wordsworth etc, with those changes to the message.
So, anyone interested? Don’t want or need scabrous versions, needs to read straight. But the basic gig would be to provide “a poem” which can be clearly based upon another work. That “new” poem then pushing the message desired. It’s not straight advertising, won;t end up with “Buy Draino!”. But a certain direction to he subject matter all the same.
Anyone?
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