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An Edgar Allan Poem

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Published on January 17, 2009

Adam Rex, Edgar Allen Poe
Adam Rex, Edgar Allen Poe

At midnight Poe’s reciting parts of poetry he’s writing,
Whilst a raven is alighting on the bust above his door.
But the poem Poe composes poses problems, ’cause he knows his
Line on roses being roses has been written once before.
He supposes he could change it—he had lots of rhymes before.
Tons of choices.  Rhymes galore.

In his bleary brain he goes through all the words that rhyme with rose,
and throws out clothes, expose, Joe’s, nose, and toes, and maybe twenty more.
Alas, in spite of all of those he sees not one of them that flows
as well as “rose is rose is rose,” the line he used to have before.
“Maybe I should switch to prose,” he sighs, and lies down on the floor.
Quoth the raven,

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[Text and illustrations from Frankenstein Takes the Cake, copyright © 2008 by Adam Rex, posted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.]

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Adam Rex

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Adam Rex began working for companies such as Wizards of the Coast and Dungeons & Dragons publisher TSR while still attending the University of Arizona. He was honored to have two illustrations accepted into the Society's Annual Scholarship Competition in 1993 and 1997. He would consider it a personal favor if you didn't look them up.

Adam now works primarily in children's publishing, writing and illustrating books for clients such as Harcourt, Hyperion, Random House, and Penguin. His first novel, The True Meaning of Smekday, was released in 2007, and his book Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich is a New York Times Bestseller. He is currently striving to write as well as he draws and draw as well as he paints, as well as learning to play the theremin.

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