[Grammar] Show off your own poetry and prose here, and share it with other members.

[kadioguy]

Show off your own poetry and prose here, and share it with other members.

https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/forums/17-Poetry-Prose-amp-Songs

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Should it be 'them'? or is that usage like 'bread and butter'?

 

[Tarheel]

I guess it is like bread and butter. Except you can't eat poetry.
;-)

( There's a new one posted by your favorite poet.)

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Poetry and prose are uncountable, so I don't know whether them would ever work.

Poem and story are countable. So you could say, Show off your poems and stories here, and share them with other members.

Now excuse me while I go butter up a poem! . . .

 

[kadioguy]

Now excuse me while I go butter up a poem! . . .

I find the structure interesting. Does it mean something like this?

Now excuse me, I'm going to butter up a poem!

 

[Tarheel]

I find the structure interesting. Does it mean something like this?

Now excuse me. I'm going to butter up a poem!

Yeah, but somehow that's not as funny as the original.