< this is literature for chrissake > by ray heinrich

[Leanne]

 < this is literature for chrissake >

   so wipe that smile off your face
   and get serious

   literature is life
   and life is serious
   and i'm serious

   and you must be serious
   since you've emailed me three times about my damned poem

   i'm hoping this reply will get you off my back

   so you asked me:
     "what's the dwarf mean?"
   
   jeeeesus, i'm not a mind reader,
   i have no idea what that dwarf means to you!

   but i can at least tell you 
   what some of the other elements of the poem mean to me:

   bunny-rabbit is jesus
   big-bear is truth
   randy-the-sex-starved-goat is just there to attract readers such as yourself
   and fred-the-farmer stands for the selfishness
   that keeps most of us from leaving
   the cycle of rebirth at moo-cow's farm

   and winky-the-dwarf?

   he's all yours

             - - -




The original poem and comments can be found here

[billy]

thanks for putting this one up leanne, i missed it.

it was randy the goat who attracted me

nice choice for the hogs

[Leanne]

it was randy the goat who attracted me

me too... I suspect it always is...

[billy]

mwoar poetry about randy the goat please
i think rays poetry in the for fun forum, is a real asset to the site. some really good stuff gets in there and a lot of what he/she/it puts up is well worth a smile or three.

[Leanne]

Fun is terribly underrated these days. It's a rare poem that can make you laugh and think at the same time.

[Philatone]

going to agree with billy's comment about what ray's poetry adds, as well as outlook in general
reminds me a lot of a Billy Collins's "The Introduction", especially the final third, though in an even less serious way.
the down-to-earth tone is perfect