Poetry co-opted by advertising: how do we feel?

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2009/dec/02/rise-poetry-in-advertising

Make up a poem for ads for the following brands here:

Starbucks:

Liptons:

Dixons:

Carte Noire:

Benecol:

The kindness of strangers

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Madonna syndrome: I should have ditched feminism for love, children and baking

A playwright who embraced the feminism espoused by her mother and flaunted by Madonna now feels betrayed

Times Feb 09

Joanna Lumley for mayor!

Joanna Lumley: a reluctant but measured and sensible leader. With a brilliant sense of humour. An experienced campaigner, consumate people person, intelligent and fabulously wll connected, darling. Don't do it for yourself, Lumley, do it for us.

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Antonia's Blog on British Culture

Hilarious anthropological study of Brits, by a Brit

Pop up theatre this summer

Nursery Rhyme

Get some percussion sorted, something gentle like the sound of the sea, a rainstick would be best, and channel the trials and soul of 1970's western Kingston, Jamaica, through Don Carlos, with Rivers of Babylon.

By the rivers of Babylon
Where we sat down
And there we wept
When we remembered Zion
But the wicked carried us away in captivity
Required from us a song
How can we sing King Alpha's song
In a strange land?
Words of our mouth
And the meditations of our heart
Be acceptable in thy sight
Oh, farai!
But the wicked carried us away in captivity
Required from us a song
How can we sing King Alpha's song
In a strange land?