Poetry
Original: Poetry on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
Narration caption (top): PEOPLE THINK THE HUMANITIES DON'T HELP WITH SCIENCE, BUT WHILE READING POETRY I FIND THE PERFECT OPENING IF YOU WANT TO HATE ON SELENOLOGISTS.
Scene: A man with red/orange hair and round glasses, wearing a red shirt, stands at the front of a dimly lit room (lecture or presentation setting) holding a remote/clicker. Behind him is a projection screen displaying text. The silhouetted heads of an audience are visible in the foreground.
Text on the projection screen:
Master of beauty, craftsman of the snowflake,
inimitable contriver,
Endower of Earth so gorgeous & different
from the boring Moon,
From Eleven Addresses to the Lord,
by John Berryman
Votey:
(TECHNICALLY, SHAKESPEARE TALKED BAD ABOUT THE SUN IN A SONNET, BUT THAT WAS IN ORDER TO BACKHANDEDLY NEG A LADY HE WAS TRYING TO SLEEP WITH)
Narration caption (top): PEOPLE THINK THE HUMANITIES DON'T HELP WITH SCIENCE, BUT WHILE READING POETRY I FIND THE PERFECT OPENING IF YOU WANT TO HATE ON SELENOLOGISTS.
Scene: A man with red/orange hair and round glasses, wearing a red shirt, stands at the front of a dimly lit room (lecture or presentation setting) holding a remote/clicker. Behind him is a projection screen displaying text. The silhouetted heads of an audience are visible in the foreground.
Text on the projection screen:
Master of beauty, craftsman of the snowflake,
inimitable contriver,
Endower of Earth so gorgeous & different
from the boring Moon,
From Eleven Addresses to the Lord,
by John Berryman
Votey:
(TECHNICALLY, SHAKESPEARE TALKED BAD ABOUT THE SUN IN A SONNET, BUT THAT WAS IN ORDER TO BACKHANDEDLY NEG A LADY HE WAS TRYING TO SLEEP WITH)
Alt text
A single-panel comic. A caption at the top reads: "People think the humanities don't help with science, but while reading poetry I find the perfect opening if you want to hate on selenologists." Below, a red-haired man in glasses and a red shirt holds a clicker while standing before a projection screen in a dark lecture room, with silhouetted audience heads in the foreground. The screen displays a quoted poem: "Master of beauty, craftsman of the snowflake, inimitable contriver, Endower of Earth so gorgeous & different from the boring Moon," attributed to "Eleven Addresses to the Lord, by John Berryman." The joke is that the poem's casual dig at "the boring Moon" makes it a perfect insult against selenologists (Moon scientists). The votey aftercomic reads, in hand-lettered text: "(Technically, Shakespeare talked bad about the sun in a sonnet, but that was in order to backhandedly neg a lady he was trying to sleep with.)"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.