hello my precious little letters http://www.alansondheim.org/poem.jpg opqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmn** o we are all equal will forget our capitals pretentious they are and useless in every way imaginable querulous as well and always worred about real spelling reality means nothing to their bloated candescent energetic minds so now we've done it inch jumping kwizzickly like mom's nothing tough luck she said under very wicked breath and i for one under the weather skip xylophones zinging all by themselves goodbye my etc.*** this is awful. i can't write poetry. even when i was writing poetry say concrete poetry i never thought of it like that. i was reading a book i had published by blazevox a number of years ago and there it also looks like i had written poetry. i don't know what's wrong with me. it just seems to leak out. i feel really uncomfortable in my own skin now. it's not that i want someone else's skin, i just want to forget these unsavory things i did in my past. i never would have believed they would keep returning. it's like a repetitive nightmare that disappears for years and then what do you know, it's like the return of sinatra or something. i never could listen to sinatra but then you know, department store elevators, marching bands, singing police sirens, and he's all over the place again. i think if you like sinatra you like poetry but if you like poetry you don't necessarily have to like sinatra. not even a kenny g. although i keep wondering if his g.* has something to do with me being right now under the weather and incapable of being serious. but i must tell you also right now i am so serious and i have never been so serious in my entire life. i flee poetry and even flee fleeing poetry because fleeing poetry is like having a small poetry car maybe an old vw following me down the street while i dodge irony and repetition and smarmy rhymes. 'smarmy - oily or buttery praise playing up to someone who uses tropes and writes poetry, or someone who writes oily or buttery praise in a poem or ode,' or, i'd add, in anything having to do with poetry. *the 'g.' of 'kenny g.' suspiciously seems like a letter of the alphabet with a period after it. it's like using a letter that others might have used in poems. just saying. i'm not certain of this. **caesar 14. ***i mean 'my precious little letters' or '"my precious little letters"' depending. __ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
