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Six-Year-Old David Foster Wallace's Viking Poem Is Pretty Awesome
By Tyler LynchMarch 11th, 2010, 5:45 pmComments (13)
The poem - written by a six-year-old David Foster Wallace - is part of an archive of the late author's work acquired by UT and to be released this fall. We know just what you're going to say: the poem's dead-on wit prefigures the author's style while the cadence of the rhyme scheme suggests the musicality of his later prose. And we totally agree...
Oh wait, no we don't. Shut up. A six-year-old's poem about vikings is still a six-year-old's poem about vikings. Which, by the way, doesn't mean it's not awesome: "If you were to see a viking today / it's best you go some other way" might be the best advice of the day. RIP, DFW.
Commentarium (13 Comments)
i genuinely like this poem
This was written about Brett Favre.
I love how he forgot the 'g' in Vikin' so he just stuck it in there in the middle.
I know this is supposed to make me wanna go reread Wallace's 'Infinite Jest' again but, honestly, it just makes me wanna go reread Joss Whedon's 'Sugarshock' instead.
Six? Really? I'm a tad suspicious that sprung from someone just learning to write and spell (even if that someone is DFW). I'd guess he was older than that when it was written. I'd say maybe closer to 8 if he was a good speller.
I haven't Wallace. I think I won't like his stuff.
Who is David Wallace?
Rife with spelling and grammar errors and uneven meter.
"Who is David Wallace?" Surely you jest! He is the inventor of the Bun-vac 2000, the self-walking trousers, and many other labour-saving devices.
Ah damn, he was one of those genius kids, wasn't he.
@ PO: Are you serious? Are you serious? A six-year-old? I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and pray you're sarcastic.
Plus he was already referring to himself with his middle name at age six? Parents messed that child up. No wonder his penmanship is for shit.
Foster is not his middle name. It's his mother's maiden name.