Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The Yeti Day

On a recent post to his blog, author Neil Gaiman discussed how you could purchase a print of one of his poems illustrated by artist Jouni Koponen.

The poem is "The Day the Saucers Came" and you can read it in its entirety here.

Here is a snippet from the middle of it, but obviously read the whole thing or it won't make any sense out of context.

"...
Angels, drunk and muddled, stumbled from the bars,
And all the bells of London were sounded, the day
Animals spoke to us in Assyrian, the Yeti day,
The fluttering capes and arrival of the Time Machine day,
You didn't notice any of this because
..."


And I've also taken the liberty of showing you the relevant part of Koponen's illustration (Please note I artistically butchered his work, bolding the word "yeti" as I am wont to do):



What's stopping you? Go check out the full print and buy it!

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