Re: Beware the Ides of March

Hi Yocum,

>Has anyone written any Poetry on things bananafishy?

No. My poetry concerns either sex or death.

I haven't. When I try
>to force it I end up with;

"Poetry should come as naturally as leaves from a tree-or not at all"
-John Keats

>
>
>Rack My Brain
>
>Contemplate, Contemplate
>in my head I dive
>open gate, open gate
>out the cattle drive
>
>sheep leaping, goats bleating
>shove, shove, prod and pry
>glassy, hazy, glazy, staring
>blink, wink, squint my eye
>
>sopping wet, dripping damp
>like birds all thought scatters
>concentrate, focus, compress and tamp
>too sleepy for what matters
>
>Daniel
>

"In my head I dive?" Come on, Yocum. Give me something I can sink my teeth
into. Like "Into my black liquor I dive"

>
>Anyone else? I promise (with no fingers crossed) not to be critical.
>

No can do. I've got this iron-clad method consisting of working night and
day on stories and poems. For weeks, months on end. Then travelling to a
country-when I am in the mood. Writing more. Developing. Then re-writing.
Then completing. Afterward, I almost always histronically burn my
compositions, preferably after a rainy night, where I can light a nice
bonfire and not have to fret about a conflagration the park service would
have to deal with.

>Daniel
>Kinder Gentler

To Hell with him. I want the Inquistor back. Leave the kinder and gentler
Yocum to the Happy Meals, give me the hard-boiled poster anyday.

Cordially,

John Gedsudski
Adjunct Professor of Sciolism
Northern Philistia Community College
501 Boorish Drive
NY,NY

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Received on Wed Mar 12 19:19:32 2003