doclinkin wrote:Nivek wrote:Congratulations, Rico!
doc: I MIGHT be next. Unless you beat me to it with a zombie book or something.
Do we got a link for Kev's book?
Don't think it's available yet. His site says February 1st
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doclinkin wrote:Nivek wrote:Congratulations, Rico!
doc: I MIGHT be next. Unless you beat me to it with a zombie book or something.
Do we got a link for Kev's book?
barelyawake wrote:Hey doc, I've been writing a book. I think you could certainly help in editing and pumping up the jokes if you are interested. If so, email me.
doclinkin wrote:barelyawake wrote:Hey doc, I've been writing a book. I think you could certainly help in editing and pumping up the jokes if you are interested. If so, email me.
Curiosity piqued BA. Long time no see. Cool. Hmmn you still have that aol address? or PM me here a new one.
payitforward wrote:DANNYLANDOVER wrote:AFM wrote:3 IN THE MORNING AT THE WAFFLE HOUSE
4 IN THE MORNING AND PIF BEGINS TO SHOUT
Was he talking about the overnight scenarioooo?
If you make a house out of waffles, don't pour syrup over it.
Has anyone here ever been a short order cook? I have.
That couplet would work better if the first line read "3 in the morning, we're at the waffle house. That's a dactyl, a troche & 3 iambs, which is what the 2d line has.
The way it is now is kind of hard to scan. You could leave the "AND" our of the second line, but in that case it'd be better as a quatrain -- or 2 couplets:
3 in the morning
At the waffle house
4 in the morning
PIF begins to shout
But, why stop there?
Giving no warning
Quiet as a mouse
He began storming
"Girl, zip down your blouse!"
& so forth...
payitforward wrote:Doc... I can't quote my own work. I have lots of books out & have been reasonably widely anthologized; anything I quote would lead to unveiling myself, which no one else does so....
Of course, I could keep riffing along the lines of the above, but in that case I'll wind up writing something that I like, but which I can't use, which will tick me off for obvious reasons.
So... what am I going to do?
Well... I can include some poems I like, which people might not know.
3 in the morning
At the waffle house
4 in the morning
PIF begins to shout
Giving no warning
Quiet as a mouse
He began storming
"Girl, zip down your blouse!"
doclinkin wrote:Open invitation to anyone willing to try out a few licks of poetry. Or lyrics. Or whatever fits. Make Payitforward takeitback to the old bold days and risk a few lines of questionable genius.
stilldropin20 wrote:doclinkin wrote:Open invitation to anyone willing to try out a few licks of poetry. Or lyrics. Or whatever fits. Make Payitforward takeitback to the old bold days and risk a few lines of questionable genius.
i know it has been asked before but is there any way to get the archived poetry thread from 2002-2005? anybody make copies. I would love to read my silliness from back in time when politics was boring.
payitforward wrote:Sheesh, Doc -- I pass you one of the greatest pieces of writing ever done by anyone, & you let it go by in silence? I'm a serious man and I poetry all the time and why in my day I was the Duke of Poemdon, and pardon me while I lotion up my stroking hand and flagellate my bla bla bla
payitforward wrote:Way to turn up the rhetorical intensity, doc -- I love that. Now transform it into the sestina I think you still owe me. (Do I misremember that? -- if so, don't correct me; I'll look back through the pages)
I'd say Blake has plenty to tell us about the current bill of particulars. Pindar does too. Real news stays news.
Tell me something: is this new or old? Is it news or dated? Did I write it? Was it written a century ago?
There’s a dance everyone dances
But some don’t dance – they just stare
Don’t you ever give such glances
Dance! – Or else don’t be there
montestewart wrote:PIF is Ron Silliman!