Welcome Dear Readers! As you may know from time to time this blog takes it upon itself to attempt to cheer up American Literature’s most Gloomy Gus, Edgar Allan Poe. Join me, won’t you as we give it yet another try.
Hey Eddy! What’s that you’ve got there?
the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells —
Oh well, that’s cheery! Bells are kind of fun. What is it you like about them?
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night !
Okay. Well, listen it’s a little cold out here in the icy air of night. How about we go inside and you can tinkle your bells indoors.
Hear the mellow wedding bells
Golden bells!
Okay are you talking about different bells than the ones you’re currently tinkling? Cause I can’t hear anything over all that tinkling, Edgar!
To the swinging and the ringing
Of what? The wedding bells?
Of the bells,bells, bells,
Bells, yes, I got that part.
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Yeah yeah yeah yeah! Got it!
Bells, bells, bells –
Edgar stop saying bells!
To the swinging and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells –
Okay, Edgar you’re about one second away from getting your face slapped.
Hear the loud alarum bells —
Brazen bells !
Sorry, I don’t hear any alarum bells and I don’t mean to be critical but you spelled alarm wrong and it’s such an easy word, Ed, come on!
Oh, the bells, bells, bells !
What a tale their terror tells
Of Despair !
Okay now this is exactly what I’m talking about, Ed. Everything was going along fine. You were tinkling some cheery little bells and like two seconds later all of a sudden it’s nothing but terror and Despair! Can’t you just lighten up for like ten seconds?
In the silence of the night,
How we shiver with affright
Affright? Okay, now you’re just flat out making up negative words! Why not turn that frown upside down and make up some cheery words! You’d feel a lot better about things. Do you know any cheery words?
In a happy Runic rhyme,
To the rolling of the bells –
Okay yeah! There you go! That’s what I’m talkin’ about!
To the rolling of the bells —
Of the bells, bells, bells —
EDGAR! Stop saying bells! I’m begging you!
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells —
Bells, bells, bells —
Okay Edgar, that’s it. I’m getting out the duct tape. It’s going over your mouth right now unless you promise me you will stop saying bells.
bells, bells, bells, bells —
Bells, bells, bellsbells, bells, bells, bells —
Bells, bells, bellsbells, bells, bells, bells —
Bells, bells, bellsbells, bells, bells, bells —
Bells, bells, bellsbells, bells, bells, bells —
Bells, bells, bellsbells, bells, bells, bells —
Bells, bells, bellsbells, bells, bells, bells —
Bells, bells, bellsbells, bells, bells, bells —
Bells, bells, bellsbells, bells, bells, bells —
Bells, bells, bellsbells, bells, bells, bells —
Bells, bells, bellsbells, bells, bells, bells —
Bells, bells, bellsbells, bells, bells, bells —
Bells, bells, bells
Okay that does it, Buster!
Well, at least he’s finally smiling.
Until next time . . . I love you
Linda Vernon Humor 
Time for someone to take their Lithium again…I meant me, not Sir Edgar Allan Poe.
LOLLILY!
Lol!!!! Oh that Edgar! Not only is he depressed, he obsessed! I bet if we visited his home we’d find him hoarding thousands upon thousands of bells.
Poor dear dreary Edgar. And to make matter worse, apparently he was born with two belly buttons which is probably the reason he was so dreary. I know I would be having to live with something like that!
Nevermore to the bells. Have him shove one in each navel and learn to belly dance.
I will never understand how people who write such dark stuff get so popular and people like us, who write to inspire smiles, get ignored. You’re going to need a bigger roll of duct tape and a whole box of markers.
Now the image of Edgar Allan Poe belly dancing is a good way to start the day! I wonder, do people enjoy the thrill of being scared over the fun of laughing? Maybe what we need is a new genre: fear laughing — Silence of the Lambs starring Mel Brooks.
Let’s call it “Silence of the Lamb-chops.” That’ll keep us out of trouble with those pesky copyright infringement lawyers and play well with Mel’s Jewish heritage. Sounds like fun, Linda. It’ll be hard to keep a straight face.
LOL! Russell thank you for getting this idea all set up for me. Now all I have to do is get Mel to return my calls!
Poe, so morose and woeful. Someone should’ve rung his miserable neck. Them bells do resonate though.
Rumor has it he actually had two bellybuttons! So you’d that would have at least invoked a Mona Lisa smile in his pictures. . But noooo!