By John Hertz: Among the wonders of Loscon XLI (28-30 Nov 14) I saw a table in Ask Us Alley for next year’s Fandom Verse Expo, Lancaster. At that hour – 1 a.m. if I recall correctly – no one was staffing the table, but there was literature. Feeling I was surely in favor of fandom verse I left this sample, which Paige Willey later politely said the gang found acceptable.
I like fandom ’cos it’s strange.
It helps my mind get broader range.
The creatures I meet
May have seven feet
But there’s nothing I’d take in exchange.
OK but the last line is weak
John has answered the challenge —
It Can Always Get Verse
So he thinks that my last line is weak!
Well, to me it’s as solid as teak.
To this forest of Sherwood
I say “If you blur wood,
You might peck where you’ll break your beak.”