I need to stop.

[starlightkissu.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry for posting so much, but I'm just in a wicked Joostery mood.

So I wrote a poem. I'd make it a song if I had any musical talent, and I'd LJ cut it if my computer didn't hate me.

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Aunt Agatha, I’ve got something to say

Aunt Dahlia, some news for you today

From your nephew Bertie Wooster, young and gay

And I use that word in every sort of way

 

Old ancestors, I know that you’re aware

Of my Jeeves and the adventures we have shared

Since you are family, I find it only fair

To tell you of our posish – I warn you it is rare.

 

Jeeves has been my valet for many years

Saving me from fiancés and soothing all my fears

No matter the sitch, he always interferes

When I find myself in the soup, he always appears

 

You’ve often wondered why I care not for skirts

Not wishing to get married, despite your best efforts

And though I’m sure you will see us as perverts

My darling Jeeves and I do confess we are inverts

 

Yes, dear aunts, he is what I’m dreaming of

And the reason I resisted every shove

To get hitched to those fillies you’re fond of

Jeeves and I have fallen deeply in love

 

Now, old relatives, it happened accidentally

I mentioned to him that I was feeling quite chilly

We were not in the flat, so you see

We were far from home, so Jeeves said to me

 

“Sir, it does seem that we are stuck in the snow,

Far from our abode and nowhere left to go.”

I approached him - the s continued to flow

I held my arms toward him, feeling my face glow

 

He pulled me close with arms warm and strong

I rested against his chest , happy as the day is long

My heart singing the most passionate love song

After getting what I had wanted all along

 

I whispered, but too loud for him to miss

“I must confess – I’ve thought often of this,

Being in your arms, I bally well can call it bliss.”

I looked up into his eyes and gave him a swift kiss.

 

Now, I understand your looks of surprise

The open mouths and the widening of eyes

But I have decided that there is no more room for lies

But before you say your goodbyes

 

Jeeves and I will stay together for all time

No matter what you say or how you speak your minds

We are in love  - which is the find of finds

We belong together; there is a tie that binds.

Fin.

Yes, my Bertie voice is fail. And yes, I know that they didn't use the word 'gay' that way back then. But I was bored, and this was a good use of my time.
 

Comments

[waqaychay.livejournal.com]

oh, wow! this is darling! i love it, my dear. very well done. i especially love the fourth stanza. ♥

[waqaychay.livejournal.com]

and that last line! perfection. :D

[starlightkissu.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that you enjoy it! I just happened to have that book on my bed at the time....it worked out well.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Hee! Extremely cute.

(Though I feel I should point out:
Jeeves has been my valet for many years
Saving me from fiancés and soothing all my fears
Fiance is the masculine. You want another, unaccented e after that e with the acute.)

[starlightkissu.livejournal.com]

Huh! I did not know that!

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

*dusts off editor hat* Yep. It's one of those pesky French words that have come into our language with their genders. (Blond/blonde is another one.)

[sunquistadora.livejournal.com]

Very cute ^_^ Extra <3 for the last line!

[blackletter]

Love it! (I'm imagining Bertie singing with piano accompaniment a la Hugh Laurie style.)

And yes, I know that they didn't use the word 'gay' that way back then.

I got curious about word usage. (As I do. It's the philologist training.) And according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "gay" was used as a slang term for homosexual as early as 1922. (Although it originated in the US. But perhaps Bertie picked it up on a visit to New York.)

[starlightkissu.livejournal.com]

I must log that away for future use.

[closetofheroes.livejournal.com]

Bertie does sometimes use American slang. 'I don't dig you, Jeeves' being my favourite.

I believe the first time 'gay' was used in this sense in a movie was in Bringing up Baby, made in nineteen-thirty-what?? Cary Grant apparently just added the line in on a whim (he was somehwat of that persuasion himself, I understand).

[random-nexus.livejournal.com]

Awww, how sweet! I can just about imagine Bertie singing this, too!
And Blackletter beat me to the punch - yes, "gay" was used in that fashion before the era where J & W is set.

*applauds*

[hoskie.livejournal.com]

I think we need one of our talented singers to record this as a song so we can add it to the official Indeed Sir soundtrack. ;)

[mxdp.livejournal.com]

I second that! An official Indeed Sir song!

Anyway, this is so lovely and funny--not to mention original! <3

[hoskie.livejournal.com]

If we could get someone to sing it this would be our fourth Indeed Sir song, I believe. ;P

[mxdp.livejournal.com]

Almost a CD. What community can say that, huh? Unfortunately I can't sing. Or play an instrument. Or dance. Otherwise I'd be so in. ^^

[starlightkissu.livejournal.com]

Right? I would have posted it as a song if I could sing or do anything remotely musical. I was inspired by the other songs from Indeed Sir....I'm delighted that other people liked it, too.

[mxdp.livejournal.com]

You'll find some lucky one who can sing, I hope.^^ And the song *chuckles* really is good. Love it!

[siilikeiju.livejournal.com]

*giggles and looks silly* I like it a lot. It makes me think of how the aunts would react. Bertie could sing it to them.

[umpteenth-gail.livejournal.com]

I love it, too! The only nitpick I offer is that using Bertie's full name, with his surname, spoils the rhythm a bit, and it's not necessary as they only have one nephew Bertie. If I didn't like it so much, I wouldn't bother to nitpick, LOL. It's romantic, too. (hugs them)

[starlightkissu.livejournal.com]

I was singing it to this silly little tune as I was writing it, and the line fit best with the tune that way.

Of course, I can't remember the tune now...

[lady529.livejournal.com]

Ha, brilliant! I second (well, forth or something by now) hearing Bertie singing it and demand someone do it now *nods*

The Lady 529

[chaya.livejournal.com]

(lj-cut text="The poem is this way!")
poem poem poem
(/lj-cut)
Yes, my Bertie...


Do this with < and > instead of ( and ) and you will have a cut tag!

[starlightkissu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know how, but my computer is really wonky sometimes and rebels against LJ...

[chaya.livejournal.com]

How strange. It interferes with text fields like the ones for LJ entries? Maybe I can help, how does it rebel?

[starlightkissu.livejournal.com]

My computer just stops. It doesn't freeze, it just stops responding on LJ. Only sometimes, though. Occasionally it will rebel against Myspace, too.

I've really just learned to live with it, hah.

[chaya.livejournal.com]

Weird. I would do some virus scannage - basic html in a text field shouldn't be responsible for a computer freezing or seizing up. I suspect foul play at hand.

[starlightkissu.livejournal.com]

Well, considering it's really my parents computer and the one I use at school works fine, I shall just let them handle it, I believe.

[closetofheroes.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you use Firefox, starlightkissu, but I had trouble with the LJ cut too until I tried doing it in Internet Explorer.

[antony-james-k.livejournal.com]

Wonderful. Really made me warm and fuzzy. Thanks for sharing!

[purplefluffycat.livejournal.com]

Adorable! - it does rather sound like poetry that Bertie might have written himself :-)

PurpleFluffyCat x

[closetofheroes.livejournal.com]

I beg to differ - your Bertie voice is great. And this reads with just the same rhythm and tone as a PG Wodehouse poem, although the only one I know is the one about cricket - it had some equally ludicrous rhyming. I loved that you rhymed 'skirt' 'effort' and 'perverts', btw! I thought this was great and it had me laughing out loud.

Here's a good link to some PGW poems.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/3260/wodehouse.html.

SOrry, I don't know how to make it an actual link, but you all know how to copy and paste.

[starlightkissu.livejournal.com]

Ah, these are faboo! Thanks for the link!

[ironicbees.livejournal.com]

Loved it! So cute.

Now I kind of want to see Bertie recite it to his aunts, to see the looks on their faces. ;)

[starlightkissu.livejournal.com]

Right? I had to stopped a few times because I was just imagining the looks on their faces. Cups of tea raised half-way to the mouths, which would be gaping like fish.

Of course, after saying all this, Bertie would probably run like merry hell.

[emeraldreeve.livejournal.com]

Sweet! Great poem!


LJ freezes up on me at times. I thought it might be due to my sometimes slow server. I use firefox, too.