Thought I'd mention it in passing...

Thought I'd Mention it in Passing

I slept with
your wife
who was
home alone

and I acknowledge
you were probably
saving her
for yourself

Forgive me
she was sexy
good in bed
and made me a sandwich

What I did here was replace the idea of eating someone's plums with sleeping with someone's woman. By elevating the offense committed, and by keeping a tone consistent with the original, I think I brought out the insincerity and unapologetic tone that the author takes.

Every part I exaggerated and parodied, but kept the form of the poem consistent. With the title, I exaggerated the ambivalent tone the author takes to draw light to it. The first stanza I merely state the crime committed, and where it happened, exactly as the author does. In the second stanza, I acknowledge that I have wronged the person I am writing to, and admit what I have done wrong, but seem unaffected by it. Next, you would expect an apology, and technically it does come, but only sandwiched between knowingly violating the recipient of the note and listing off how enjoyable the violating act was.

By keeping the tone and form consistent but changing the subject matter to something much more shocking, my parody attempts to emphasize the author's ambivalence towards his wrong doing and to poke fun at that insincerity.