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The Re-echo Club: as by Stephen Crane (Purple Cow)
From The Re-echo Club
Once a man said,
I never saw a Purple Cow;
Again he spoke,
I never hope to see one.
Then all the people said,
How noble his humble-mindedness!
How glorious his meek resignation!
Now this is the strange part--
The man has seen hundreds of purple cows,
Ay, thousands,
But the man was color blind,
And the cows seemed to him to be a reddish brown.
Codex Note
A parody by Carolyn Wells, written in the manner of Stephen Crane as a contribution to the imagined Re-Echo Club (Purple Cow).
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MLA
Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Stephen Crane (Purple Cow).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/264/.
Chicago
Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Stephen Crane (Purple Cow).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/264/.
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