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Jan. 16th, 2009 07:52 amI thought I hated poetry, and my judgment is not to be trusted right now. Janna is making me nuts. That's right - I deny being nuts before, and I'm blaming someone else, a woman, for my state. How's that for masculine? I was unrealistic, narcissistic, defensive, bitter, angry, depressed...and I still am. Only, now with some happy on the side, you steaming bastards. But, for the poetry, I blame her. I maintain that I hate poetry - but sometimes you have to give proper dues. This morning I heard a poem on NPR that really touched the freak community. It had everything: catholic fetish, kisses laced with hot breath, teenaged hormones, lips compared to fruit, biting, and blood.
Peaches or Plums. Humor aside - read this is you care to - it's a wonderful series of thoughts, verse be damned. I rather like the writing as an essay more than a poem.
The more I hear
the more I suspect
that a poem is just an essay
with every 3rd or 5th line
dropped to the line below.
Punctuation be damned
The next poem scheduled for reading tomorrow is "The first cutting" but it's not nearly as gothy as you might hope.
Laugh at our cold, Ms. Canaydia, Mr. Michigan, if you must - but temperature is relative. Today is the coldest day in our area in 12 years. This means that we don't have the buildings designed for it, that our heaters aren't rated to heat through it (don't cold weather people still keep their homes between 65 and 75 F?), we don't own the clothes to dress for it, and our infrastructure from road crew trucks to water lines are not designed for it. Locals, remember these moments and stifle your chuckles when our UK cousins across the pond are screaming about death when London hits 85 F. They don't have a/c.
Fun with racism:
I think it's time people stopped the joke. I mean, ha-ha, a black president, but come on now - it's nearly time to get to work. I think it's great that everyone had their fun, we got all their laughs in, but enough is enough. Was it Biden? McCain the hero? I know it wasn't Palin - that was funny too, someone so wholly unqualified and insulting you'd think she might even be less likely than the black guy. I thought the fighting would start right there! Oh the black guy - that was just awesome. They even toyed with that, making him kinda-sorta Tiger black, you know? And that thing about Hawaii, whoever came up with that gets a coors from me - that was brilliant! No matter how many weird tricks we came up with, he was still "the black guy." Awesome! I saw an interview with someone getting ready for the inauguration - a black woman who never voted in her life, but got out for this poll to show off her racism. I can't believe how many people are still falling for it.
However, I just want to say that I'm 100% against the pig-blood idea. I don't think we actually need to get all the way to the ceremony to pull the old switcheroo. That whole fake tension thing where everyone is wondering when the drop will come, the confused rednecks aiming their rifles not quite sure what is going on or whether they still need to pull the triggers, and all the camera replays on the news? Also, are we all forgetting Carrie? I mean he's only part black, but doesn't that just make it more likely that his magic-black-man powers might be stronger? No need to tip the balance - last thing we need to do is fire him up and get a bunch of blood on the walls of a historic (white) building. Plus, that's just more likely to set off that whole race-war thing on a bad note. Me, I'm hiding out in Baltimore. Sure it's not the best spot during a race riot, but there are good parts and at least it's not the chocolate city.
Seriously, who won the election, for really-real?
Peaches or Plums. Humor aside - read this is you care to - it's a wonderful series of thoughts, verse be damned. I rather like the writing as an essay more than a poem.
The more I hear
the more I suspect
that a poem is just an essay
with every 3rd or 5th line
dropped to the line below.
Punctuation be damned
The next poem scheduled for reading tomorrow is "The first cutting" but it's not nearly as gothy as you might hope.
Laugh at our cold, Ms. Canaydia, Mr. Michigan, if you must - but temperature is relative. Today is the coldest day in our area in 12 years. This means that we don't have the buildings designed for it, that our heaters aren't rated to heat through it (don't cold weather people still keep their homes between 65 and 75 F?), we don't own the clothes to dress for it, and our infrastructure from road crew trucks to water lines are not designed for it. Locals, remember these moments and stifle your chuckles when our UK cousins across the pond are screaming about death when London hits 85 F. They don't have a/c.
Fun with racism:
I think it's time people stopped the joke. I mean, ha-ha, a black president, but come on now - it's nearly time to get to work. I think it's great that everyone had their fun, we got all their laughs in, but enough is enough. Was it Biden? McCain the hero? I know it wasn't Palin - that was funny too, someone so wholly unqualified and insulting you'd think she might even be less likely than the black guy. I thought the fighting would start right there! Oh the black guy - that was just awesome. They even toyed with that, making him kinda-sorta Tiger black, you know? And that thing about Hawaii, whoever came up with that gets a coors from me - that was brilliant! No matter how many weird tricks we came up with, he was still "the black guy." Awesome! I saw an interview with someone getting ready for the inauguration - a black woman who never voted in her life, but got out for this poll to show off her racism. I can't believe how many people are still falling for it.
However, I just want to say that I'm 100% against the pig-blood idea. I don't think we actually need to get all the way to the ceremony to pull the old switcheroo. That whole fake tension thing where everyone is wondering when the drop will come, the confused rednecks aiming their rifles not quite sure what is going on or whether they still need to pull the triggers, and all the camera replays on the news? Also, are we all forgetting Carrie? I mean he's only part black, but doesn't that just make it more likely that his magic-black-man powers might be stronger? No need to tip the balance - last thing we need to do is fire him up and get a bunch of blood on the walls of a historic (white) building. Plus, that's just more likely to set off that whole race-war thing on a bad note. Me, I'm hiding out in Baltimore. Sure it's not the best spot during a race riot, but there are good parts and at least it's not the chocolate city.
Seriously, who won the election, for really-real?
