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John Boyne has written a poem for LOJ

77 replies

DwightShrute · 12/09/2023 16:20

x.com/JohnBoyneBooks/status/1701490832103080255?s=20

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Boiledbeetle · 12/09/2023 18:39

IcakethereforeIam · 12/09/2023 17:37

Do you think he'll bite? My bet is undignified silence 😁

Well I'm now blocked by Owen, I wasn't last time I checked. I did comment on the poem tweet though this morning! So he's probably just going through Twitter rage blocking!

Gosh I'm obviously doing Twitter right! Blocked by Owen and India! Such fun!

TalcumX · 12/09/2023 18:40

PriOn1 · 12/09/2023 18:10

“shame Boyne didn’t work a ‘Sanctimonious Morph’ into that poem!”

or Talcum X.

Stratospheric is right too. He’s really going for it.

You rang?

Waitwhat23 · 12/09/2023 18:41

There's a lot of he/him's and she/they's who are absolutely raging on Twitter.

I'm mostly amused that John has, now peaked, proper gone for it - he's not fucking about 😆

LoobiJee · 12/09/2023 19:53

Waitwhat23 · 12/09/2023 18:41

There's a lot of he/him's and she/they's who are absolutely raging on Twitter.

I'm mostly amused that John has, now peaked, proper gone for it - he's not fucking about 😆

What are they saying? (I’m not on xtwitter)

WeCanAlwaysJustStayIn · 12/09/2023 19:58

His books are brilliant

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 12/09/2023 19:59

The youtuber owen jones is a bit niche these days isn't he? dwindling audience and all that

still, nice to see a poem with some excellent rhymes!

HerAvatar · 12/09/2023 20:06

So good DH stopped watching the England/Scotland match to listen as I read it to DD, we're all still chuckling now Grin

LizzieSiddal · 12/09/2023 20:12

I couldn’t love John Boyne any more. Star

Waitwhat23 · 12/09/2023 20:17
Tantrum Crying GIF

Lots of comparisons to Vogon poetry and faux concerned posts about how embarrassed he should be.

Baaaasically, the written version of this

BabyStopCryin · 12/09/2023 20:25

I thought it was more Cat in the Hat/Fox in a Box/Green Eggs and Ham…

nothingcomestonothing · 12/09/2023 20:29

Now I want to know which nickname Owen likes the least - LOJ? Talcum X? Or not the king of all the gays? I bet he's fucking raging, sad little misogynist that he is.

titchy · 12/09/2023 20:32

WeCanAlwaysJustStayIn · 12/09/2023 19:58

His books are brilliant

They are aren't they? Fabulous sense of humour.

LoobiJee · 12/09/2023 20:41

BabyStopCryin · 12/09/2023 20:25

I thought it was more Cat in the Hat/Fox in a Box/Green Eggs and Ham…

According to google, it’s based on a nursery rhyme, “I do not like thee, Doctor Fell.”

Abhannmor · 12/09/2023 20:42

Nah , Boyne is channeling his fellow Dubliner , Jonathan Swift.

' I do not like thee , Dr Fell
The reason why I cannot tell
But this I know and know right well
I do not like thee Dr Fell '

Abhannmor · 12/09/2023 20:55

My bad. Wiki says it's by satirist Tom Brown. Late 17th century.

BabyStopCryin · 12/09/2023 20:58

Well I’m not eating OJ or his offspring (should he find a suitable receptacle to gestate one for him)

JanesLittleGirl · 12/09/2023 21:05

It started life as an epigram by Martial:

^Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare.
Hoc tantum possum dicere: non amo te,^

There is an apocryphal story that Tom Brown translated it to 'I do not like thee Dr Fell' extemporaneously to keep his place at Oxford.

Twoshoesnewshoes · 12/09/2023 21:19

It’s hilarious
progeny/misogyny is my favourite bit too

Duckskitbank · 12/09/2023 21:20

I’m imagining LOJ reading the poem and stamping his little foot through the floor, Rumpelstiltskin style.

IcakethereforeIam · 12/09/2023 21:21

Little OJ's been called out in rhyme
It really was about time
John Boyne did it first
The tras cried and cursed
But we're all used to hearing them whine

JanesLittleGirl · 12/09/2023 21:38

IcakethereforeIam · 12/09/2023 21:21

Little OJ's been called out in rhyme
It really was about time
John Boyne did it first
The tras cried and cursed
But we're all used to hearing them whine

Big tick

Abhannmor · 13/09/2023 08:11

This is good. More limericks!

FrancescaContini · 13/09/2023 08:14

Clever. I really like “You’re not the King of all the Gays” 😂

OP - great username 😂

FrancescaContini · 13/09/2023 08:16

Waitwhat23 · 12/09/2023 18:41

There's a lot of he/him's and she/they's who are absolutely raging on Twitter.

I'm mostly amused that John has, now peaked, proper gone for it - he's not fucking about 😆

Let them rage 😤

Dramatico · 13/09/2023 08:23

This has got to be one of the best poems I've read in a long time