TSL's Pandorathon Prompt When War and Peace engages in fisticuffs with Gone with the Wind given by
Santosh Bakaya
There was already fisticuffs
Between War and Peace
Napolean brought war
To Russia's peace
The winter made it all
Gone with the Wind
Some American woman
Kissed an American guy
Talking of which
It was not an African American
You can bet
But kisses always look
Hot on the silver screen
(No idea why, though,
either why it is called silver or why it looks hot and not cold)
And the movie was big
It made the second-rate book a success
Second-rate compared to War and Peace
While War and Peace languished on the shelf
Too big to be read and no David Lean to make it fat
Explode on the silver screen
That is how it goes
In this bitch of a world
Said Vladimir or Estragon, out of place
or context. What wits!
The racist movie wins
With its background of genteel slavery
Made from a mediocre book
And the good book loses.
What the masses who are asses want
Is something they can see sealed with a kiss
With some vague nostalgia for some vague land!
To learning about Russia in the time of War and Peace
Theatres and distribution of reels
Are akin to not being against the ropes
In the boxing ring
Who goes into a bookshop anyway
To buy War and Peace?
Everything follows entropy
The fisticuffs are played out in terms of greenbacks
Not in the ring where Tolstoy would be a heavyweight
And Margaret Mitchell only bantam
Who on earth asks you to write on such weird things?
I might as well go and kill 'em
Make war, not peace
And engage in fisticuffs
Till such prompts are gone with the wind!
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