What to give you for Groundhog Day? I wanted very much to share a clip of Rudy Vallee and Robert Morse singing the “Groundhog Song” from the movie version of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” but all I could find on YouTube were audio recordings of Rudy and Robert, and tons of really awful college / neighborhood productions of the same.
So nerts to that.
Then, by chance, up floated another idea.
I met Richard Eberhart at a poetry reading in the 1980s, and shook his hand, and told him how much I loved this poem, and he smiled and thanked me.
I still love it.
Below is a link to a video of a group of (I assume) college kids, somewhere, reading the poem (badly) and acting it out and generally murdering it. Imagine! The best poem ever written about a dead groundhog!
I like to think that Eberhart (who died in 2005) would have enjoyed it.
Happy Groundhog Day.
(Postscript: if you want to read the poem as it was actually written, try this link.)
