Title: Lenore
Author: Eric Williford
Date: 2024
Quote: "The Polycarbonate case rustles, against the wood with constant hum..."
Everyone knows Edgar Allan Poe's superbly constructed, deliciously spooky poem "The Raven." Crows and ravens can learn to use human words, and Poe's narrator, grieving for a recently deceased friend, is wondering if he can at least hope to be with her again in Heaven, when in comes a raven who seems to have learned only the one word "Nevermore." Is it only making a noise someone used to reward it for making, or does it know something? The man doesn't dare chase the raven out of the house, and it is still, he tells us, sitting in his house muttering "Nevermore."
Eric Williford has written a parody of this poem in which a phone mysteriously vibrates and displays the text "Nevermore."
As an editor, I think it would have been funnier if he'd worked a little longer on getting the rhymes and metre as perfect as Poe did.
As a reader, I smiled.
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