Sonnagrams- Funny ones (Kenny Ramos)

I was reading about K. Silem Mohammed's Sonnagrams book, and I have to say, what I've found is hilarious.

(Whatcha talkin bout Willis)

... you may ask. Well, what Silem does is make anagrams of Shakespeare's sonnets. The anagram he does has to use all the letters, with whatever extra letters becoming letters for the title. According to reviews, the result is another sonnet. It's very.... modern, all that. No fancy words to look up, just plain old basic words. Here's an example of his I got from another blog:

The the the the the the the the the the Death (Hey Hey)

Hell yeah, this is an English sonnet, bitch:

Three quatrains and a couplet, motherfucker.

I write that yummy shit to get me rich:

My iambs got more drive than Preston Tucker.

I also got that English rhyme shit straight,

That alternating shit the verses do.

Word: every foxy mama that I date

Feels how my goddam prosody is true.

And I don’t mess with no Italian shit;

I only blow your mind the one way, ho.

I line it up four-four-four-two, that’s it:

That’s how I do my sonnet bidness, yo.

My mad Shakespearean moves are “phat,” or “def”:

They weave my pet eel Lenny—what the eff?

Well, my example has a lot of swear words, but as you can see it's... well, funny and a work of metafiction (since it does discuss how a sonnet works. You know. In a bragging way. Bragging swearing way. Kinda like how people brag online.)

Anyway. The last line? Basically that's how his OTHER works go, hence the "what the eff?" (although, let's be honest, that's exactly how we react to any sonnet.) I haven't read his work, but I'm definitely going to look for it.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Metafiction

Works Cited

Kakepare, Ukarau, dir. Whatcha talkin bout Willis. 2007. Web. 16 Dec 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw9oX-kZ_9k>.

Case, Sarah. "Songs and Sonnets." Songs and sonnets: A review of Peter Gizzi's 'Threshold Songs' and K. Silem Mohammad's 'Sonnagrams 1–20'. Jacket2, 9 2012. Web. 16 Dec 2012. 

Siamond, Sarah. "The Year in Review: Shouldn't the Sonnet? [by Sandra Simonds, August 15, 2012]."The Best American Poetry. The Best American Poetry, 2 2012. Web. 16 Dec 2012. <http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2012/12/the-year-in-review-shouldnt-the-sonnet-by-sandra-simonds-august-15-2012.html>.