Hiper Bunny and Sleeps With Coyotes are very, very good at verse parody. I don't know how long it takes them to come up with the damn things, but they make it look pretty easy -- along with exhibiting a solid skill with the language and a relatively sensitive understanding of the original poems. They're not just superimposing alien words on the rhythms, I mean to say; their versions are good, and they're better if you know the poems they're parodies of, which is fantastic.

So I decided to play, too. Terri Hamill got going with a rip off Monty Python's "Lumberjack Song," but it didn't scan -- and that makes me *crazy.* As few departures from the original as possible, remember? I need the scansion to be the same as the original. I started over and came up with this.

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The Padawan Song
The Road Not Taken