THERE’S SOMETHING IRRESISTIBLE about the anti-war poetry that’s been pouring out of England. Came a Motion. Went a Motion. Came a Paulin. He went, too. Now Harold Pinter finds a printer: Something extra, just for you.

What’s irresistible, of course, is the impulse to parody. The mockings of Andrew Motion’s “Causa Belli,” for instance, are all over the blogosphere (many of the best of them collected on Tim Blair’s fine site). Now the web’s parodic imagination has begun to savage Pinter’s entry. (My favorite, so far, is from Loretta Serrano, a recasting of the poem to bounce along with the music for the Monkees’ theme song.)

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