When a young lady who’s name is Ling
Invited me to swing
I asked my friend Lou
To join in too
But it really wasn’t her thing …
When a young lady who’s name is Ling
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There was a young lady called Michelle
There was a young lady called Michelle
Who entered that placed named hell,
But being extremely rude
And more than crude
The devil did Michelle expel.
How to request that your book is added to the catalogue of theUnited Kingdom’s National Poetry Library
If you are a UK-based poet, did you know that you can ask the National Poetry Library to consider adding your works to their catalogue. To find out how to request that the Library consider adding your work, please see below.
Having published “The Writer’s Pen and Other Poems”, on 3 September 2018, contacting The National Poetry Library is on my list of things to do. (You can find “The Writer’s Pen” here, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GD1LBMV.
“My poetry book is published. How do I make sure the library has a copy?
Firstly check our catalogue to make sure we don’t already have a copy.
If it’s not there, please bear in mind that we receive 200-300 new items every month and are unable to accept everything that is sent for the collection.
The Acquisitions Panel meet regularly to consider submissions.
For your book to be considered, please send in a copy including a return address; the librarians will consider it and respond to you.
Please send one book at a time. We have standing orders with most of the UK poetry publishers.
If you are a new publisher who would like to submit your books please get in touch.
We are primarily concerned with collecting UK and Irish publications so please contact us before sending publications from overseas.
FAQ: https://www.nationalpoetrylibrary.org.uk/visit/faqs.
When a journalist by the name of Lee
When a journalist by the name of Lee
Wrote a story about me
I threatened to sue
But my lawyer, named Lou
Said, “but sir, every word of it is true!”.
Why AI won’t work. Probably.
While one can never say never, I think that Matthew may well be correct.
One of the main tropes of science fiction has to be the self-aware robot or computer – one mobile, the other not, but both presented as self-aware and able to think as we do, although often better.
I think, therefore I am a slide rule.
Often, Frankenstein-style, the AI develops malevolence. That was a trope long before HAL; virtually all of Asimov’s robot stories from the 1940s onwards were designed to counter the notion of the AI turning on its creators. Asimov’s answer – which, apparently, was proposed to him by John W. Campbell – were the ‘laws of robotics’ in which machines simply couldn’t harm humans.
Inevitably, these laws didn’t work, and Asimov knew it; a lot of his stories involved finding ways that the laws failed. He spelled out the main point of failure in one of the final robot novels: all the builder had to do was…
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There Was a Young Lady Named Lou
There was a young lady named Lou
Who wrote a book all about glue.
It was a tome most vast
And it’s pages being stuck fast
I could not read that book …
Gentlemen in Business Suits
Gentlemen in business suits
Dream of girls who lose
Their boots
And …
To choose.
To command.
Who does what
When man’s blood is hot
And her’s is not?
Keeping the wolf away
Is, they say
The reason why
Some girls go with a random guy.
But many would rather die
Than choose
To lose
Their shoes …
Bare
Bare branch
Grey sky
And I
Elsewhere girls dance
While I
Have this grey sky
And branch bare.
There Was A Young Man Called Moat
There was a young man called Moat
Who wrote a poem about a goat
While out at sea
With a girl named Leigh
And a rather vicious stoat!
Some Men Delight in Stockings and Suspenders
Some men delight in stockings and suspenders
While others smile
At legs bare.
Still others are pretenders
And care
Not to say
Which way
They in truth
Swing
Lest the roof
Fall in, destroying everything
K Morris - Poet 