Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes

Ooh, brutal--but sometimes that's just what you need. (What you need to read, or what someone needs to write.) One of the books advertised in the back pages of A MORAL ALPHABET by Hilaire Belloc.......more

I just came across this online (it's downloadable at googlebooks). D. Streamer was a pseudonym for Harry Graham, who originated the form of the "Little Willie" poem. (Apparently there was a craze for these poems in the early part of the 20th century - newspapers would run contests and get thousands......more

Such a D E L I G H T F U L little read. So so lovely......more

I first noticed what I thought were called the "Little Willie" poems when I was in 7th or 8th Grade in 1956. They were embedded in a thick Language Arts textbook. They seemed bizarre and wonderfully naughty to my young brain and provided much amusement as antidotes to the sentence-diagramming nouns......more