Billy Collins – “Forgetfulness”
The name of the author is the first to go
followed obediently by the title, the plot,
the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel
which suddenly becomes one you have never read,
never even heard of,
as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor
decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain,
to a [...]

Lines From Alanis Morissette’s “Ironic,” Modified to Actually Make them Ironic
by Patrick Cassels December 26, 2006
An old man turned ninety-eight. He won the lottery and died the next day… of chronic emphysema from inhalation of the latex particles scratched off decades’ worth of lottery tickets.
A black fly in your Chardonnay… poured to celebrate the [...]