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The literary world was again reeling today, amidst revelations that they had once again been completely fooled by the credentials of Nobel Prize hopeful and poet Willy Wordsdearth, known for his famous poem The Baker. Said one literary critic, ‘First Norma Khouri and then James Frey, now Willy Wordsdearth, it’s getting to the stage where you just can’t believe anything you read’

Poetsquib was also tricked by the masquerade. ‘When I heard that Willy Wordsdearth is not a poet but is in fact a mechanical engineer I was horrified. Engineers should just stay completely away from poetry. Letting them into the poetic arena could spell disaster for the genre’

Poetsquib was further shocked to learn that Willy Wordsdearth was in fact her husband, aka Mr Squib aka Jose O, his list of aliases being virtually endless. ‘All those times I thought he was meeting with engineering vendors, he was actually doing book signings. I should have realised when he started wearing a beret and a funny scarf. I’m bitterly upset about this’

The hoax was discovered when Willy Wordsdearth’s sixth grade teacher recognised The Baker poem as one written by Willy for his class decades ago. ‘It was good poem,’ remembers 95 year old retired teacher Mr Chippy. ‘I was very surprised to learn he’d become an engineer although, come to think of it, he did like arranging his pencils in alphabetical order’

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