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Well I guess I can write about
the birds in the trees
smelling a suburban street on a rainy day
the vast midwestern country fields
my morning coffee with a bagel
the weather, all the climates!
watching things bleed
how I hate Joe Shmo, who broke my heart
or about Ms. Doe, who looked beautiful under white sheets in the morning sun
oh, how I love thee!
multicolored roses, lilacs, daisies!
knives and daggers through my soul
angry fathers and mothers, how I am not whole!--
I can write about everything you already know.
I'll be there in a minute.
I didn't know you from the midwest.
I even know you arent.
Must be added for effect.
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No, but I've been there.
I'll be there in a minute.
Joe Shmo sounds like a real asshole.
Can you give me Ms. Doe's number? Or is she your girl?
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I don't go after girls. You can have the her, she's in everyone's poems.
I'll be there in a minute.
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well there are a few people now thinking shit she means me! that's assuming they read your regurgitated shite;-) hey wait a minute that my girl under the sheets *Blushes* Nice one.
If your undies fer you've been smoking through em, don't peg em out
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Plagiarized?!?? Pffft.
I'll be there in a minute.
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(05-09-2013, 08:07 AM)newsclippings Wrote: I don't go after girls. You can have the her, she's in everyone's poems.
cute! ,-)
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)
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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".)
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions
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(05-09-2013, 12:36 PM)serge gurkski Wrote: (05-09-2013, 08:07 AM)newsclippings Wrote: I don't go after girls. You can have the her, she's in everyone's poems.
cute! ,-)
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!) "
(05-09-2013, 01:14 PM)rayheinrich Wrote: 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.
I'll be there in a minute.
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(05-09-2013, 11:12 AM)newsclippings Wrote: Plagiarized?!?? Pffft.
Sorry, wrong word choice I have swapped for Regurgitated 
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(05-09-2013, 02:54 PM)newsclippings Wrote: (05-09-2013, 12:36 PM)serge gurkski Wrote: (05-09-2013, 08:07 AM)newsclippings Wrote: I don't go after girls. You can have the her, she's in everyone's poems.
cute! ,-)
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!) "
(05-09-2013, 01:14 PM)rayheinrich Wrote: 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.
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I talk of and to Billy. ,-)
newsclips again belittling her poetic talents again:
"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."
Sigh!
If in your own opinion it is crap what you write then you also belittle my (and by far not just mine) ability to discern very good poetry from lesser good poetry. You are of course absolutely entitled to think of your own poetry whatever you want. That is not my point. I just wanted to point out to you that this statement of your's I quoted, has certain implications I am not sure you are aware of. ;-)
should I be wrong and you are perfectly aware of what your statement also implies, then you are still totally entitled to make said statement, but - and this is neither a rant intended to provoke an argument, nor is it so, that I am sulking and nor, furthermore, is it an attempt to patronize (that be far from me! ;-)), but instead I seriously disagree with your opinion as stated above.
cheers from serge, the crapologist
what I wrote earlier was of course tongue in cheek, possible title being : The mysterious resurrection of the Testerone (in flesh). ,-)
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womp, i'm an asshole
I'll be there in a minute.
Is 'kitsch' very bad? Is it bad to dress the same, talk the same, think the same, and produce the same type of artwork as all your friends and most of the people you see all over the place? And if it is bad, why do so many people do it? And why do the people that complain about such things being 'kitsch' do it as much as anyone else? The last time I asked a similar question, the guy at Journeys threatened to call security. But I seriously wanted to know if it was a good thing or a bad thing. It really doesn't matter. But they are taking up a lot of space in the world, and I guess I have some interest in the use of the space I have to share with these people.
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I think , it must be: should prove minor. (the Thurgood quote)
I feel that the Time of the Great Boredom should be avoided if at all possible.
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Kitsch art can be rather beautiful.
I'll be there in a minute.
I don't think I've ever used that word before now. And I don't react to it in any real sense. People can talk about artists being snobbish or pretentious, and that's fine with me, I can still like them. It's just when they're so boring that nothing they say or do appeals to me in any way. Though truthfully, I'm not very interested in art, but in reality. I noticed the other day, someone asked what's more important, truth or art. Truth is more important. Art is more necessary. That's my answer. A necessary evil, and that's one reason I mention demons so much. I feel the evil irony in art. And I have to work with it.
Kitsch personalites are what get me down.
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(05-11-2013, 02:24 AM)rowens Wrote: I feel that the Time of the Great Boredom should be avoided if at all possible.
I think it's too late for that.
I think, when everyone is happily and contently entertained and well adjusted to society, with the Internet and tv and cellphones: all the healthy, over-fed Americans with their rapidly growing families, each child wanting their own house; we will let them destroy the world outside. No more adventures, no more crazy digressions. Just get everything ordered online. And to Hell with the land, and the spirit of humanity. The great boredom.
Lines and lines of houses. And healthy, happy boys and girls in shirts advertising the company they bought their shirts from. Walking billboards. Assembly line, online ordered, contentment.
The Time of the Great Boredom.
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