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Grocery List (For ESSORANT)
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Grocery List (For ESSORANT) |
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oceanvu2 Senior Member
since 2007-02-24
Posts 1066Santa Monica, California, USA |
GROCERY LIST A blue suede cat Spider marmalade Cream of weasel Oboe macaroni Two trashed wraiths Calliope glue Monkey scissors No dogs! Distropic mussels Red bread Ambiguous kale Blender guppies Infinite soup Mango sausage Four fire dreams No dogs! Crumbled bacteria Tongue folders Two intangerines Diesel foam Shredded milk 12 dead pencils An aluminum codex No dogs! No dogs ever! Never any dogs! Oh, and a garland for Guinevere. Essorant: Here's a poem with no verbs and no sentence structure. The subject is pretty overt though. It's a grocery list.  Jim Note: The intangerines are for Paul. [This message has been edited by oceanvu2 (05-07-2007 03:47 PM).] |
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viking_metal Senior Member
since 2007-02-02
Posts 1337In a Jeep, Minnesota. |
I am utterly honored. Intangerines, eh? nothing but the very best, -paul |
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Edward Grim Senior Member
since 2005-12-18
Posts 1154Greenville, South Carolina |
HAHAHAHA That's great Jimbeaux! You might just have a weird side yet. "Shredded milk" hahaha Head Cheese & Chicken Feet |
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ChristianSpeaks Member
since 2006-05-18
Posts 396Iowa, USA |
Great! Flipant yet slightly disturbing. Dane |
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oceanvu2 Senior Member
since 2007-02-24
Posts 1066Santa Monica, California, USA |
Hi Dane -- Flipant? Moi? Everything I write is dead serious, although some things are deader than others. Best, Jim |
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Aurelian Member
since 2007-03-20
Posts 109TX, USA |
Two thumbs up! Even though I didn't understand about 3/4 of it. |
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oceanvu2 Senior Member
since 2007-02-24
Posts 1066Santa Monica, California, USA |
Hi. Aurelian! This is a poem that "is" what it is. The only meaning I get out of it, or put into it, comes in terms of terms of poetic possibilities. It's a string of skewed images, a "Grocery List." There is nothing to read into it, but some people have gotten something out of it. It's an intentional poem, though, which took hours to craft. If it moves anyone, tickles them, baffles them, or simply annoys them, but GETS READ THROUGH, then it invites a reader in. This is usually a good thing. I put it up in this forum because it addresses two notions. First, there is often talk about poetic structure, what it is, what it should be, what it isn't, in various forums. Second, there are examples of imagery in this particular forum which shut a reader down in the first two lines. This is not necessarily a good thing. This particular poem is an exemplar -- though not necessarily an exemplarly exemplar -- of an alternative approach. Is it a poem? Yes. Just because I say so? No. Does it need to be looked at again? No. For me, it's a piece of epherema, though not witless. Best, Jim |
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