The Headless Bust: A Melancholy Meditation for the False Millennium (1999)

by Edward Gorey

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The inhabitants of the ever-so-popular Haunted-Tea Cosy return in a new holiday tale. As we wander off with Edward Gorey into the new millenium our reasons for being here are far from clear. Nevertheless, here is the master craftsman at his best!

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A fun, irreverent, humorous long-form poem. Slightly macabre but not really, interesting and detached, with a good lyrical poetic sense to it. Funny for its absurdity. (

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1999

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the Bahhumbug

Edmund Gravel

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To the memory of Lancelot Brown

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'Twas hours and hours after dawn
Ere the last guest was fin'lly gone.
Ça va, hélas, from bad to worse:
Adieu to prose, alló to verse.

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"Reversing at a tango tea/ In Snogg's Casino-not-on-Sea/ L-- tripped and cried, 'I am afraid/ They tampered with the marmalade.'"

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The inhabitants of the ever-so-popular Haunted-Tea Cosy return in a new holiday tale. As we wander off with Edward Gorey into the new millenium our reasons for being here are far from clear. Nevertheless, here is the master craftsman at his best!

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