Trying to catch up with old friends... I finally got over to Jay Flemma's writing on "Cybergolf". Jay's golf writing effort is irrepressible and he has several installments there, reporting very well on the Travis Invitational:
http://www.cybergolf.com/writerscornerI found his latest poem entertaining, even though I know less about poetry than I do about golf architecture, which ain't much...
So, I don't know if his latest poem is a take-off on a famous poem as was his 'St. George's and the Dragons', paean to Padraig Harrington's victory at the PGA. But, one stanza got me wondering if he intended it to read as the word "bar" pronounced with hard "r" to rhyme with N.Y. area pronounciation of "vichyssoise" as 'vichyssoarr', or the Bostonian "bah" rhymed with a Boston version of vichysswah?
the whole poem:
http://www.cybergolf.com/golf_news/our_green_and_gothic_home"And at eighteen the story's told
That Travis dug too deep a hole
And lost an Amateur of old .
But if you need a closing par,
And hit your final shot too far
Chef Tony's voice yells from the bar:
"Your ball went in my vichyssoise!"
Our green and gothic home."