Exclamatory Kitsch.

[newsclippings]

I don't go after girls. You can have the her, she's in everyone's poems.

cute! ,-)

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and the poem rolls nicely over my tongue. Made me think of Carson McCullers.
Have you by now given up and post everything on the fun forum to avoid miscellaneous? ;-)
I wondered why it seems, that your poems always seem to trigger a certain kind of male reaction: as if your poems were cuties (which they are) and the boys in town flock around them to impress them by playing cool by bragging around . That is at least what I do . ;-) I have seen a certain guy whose name has a bee in it, behave like that, too. (Sorry B, but I had to punch you back for your rather brazen abuse of the word "unexpectedly" ( ;-) would have made for a nice gurkskism in that particular context. Good job!) When I catch myself in flagranti, or if I prefer, "caught in the act", I can't but grin. I'd suggest to christian it the newsclips effect.

See, it just worked again. Not bad at all! ;-) Reminds of the linguist Graham Thurgood's always first footnote going like that: "I shall be astonished, if all my faults proved minor". To me not being in/to the male kind of mankind, that phrasing is a cutie, too.

cheers
(from my grandson)

I avoid nothing. I just don't think I should put my crap in parts of the site where people will spend their efforts on what I put forth.
Who are you talking to here? "(Sorry B, but I had to punch you back for your rather brazen abuse of the word "unexpectedly" ( ;-) would have made for a nice gurkskism in that particular context. Good job!) "

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Even though I like the poem, I must say that its list is actually an
excellent one to use when writing poems (or whatever). The trick
(IMHO twice) isn't in the selection of subject matter. Common subjects
are common because they efficiently describe our collective concepts
of reality (no matter how erroneous). The trick is in making these
subjects seem interesting and original when, in reality, they aren't.
(This, BTW, is pretty much the definition of "good writer".)

It sure is. That's why I said I could write about all the above.
I just wanted to make fun of it because I've been wanting to for a while.

I guess I like to pain my readers with dirty honesty. I'm not much for making things interesting.