jc get out of your lazyboy and help me with this poem i'm writing:
it's sort of a found poem as in i lifted quite a bit out of this month's national geographic -- but in an attempt to keep with that idea, i'm screwing up the continuity or something -- something is wrong and i can't fix it:
Skimming National Geographic
If botanists had been linguists
the name games might have been
more fun
Candyk, flower in Russia,
brushstrokes of violet,
sounds so lovely
looks so sweet
Gold Beach and Easy Red,
the history books
would have to be rewritten
to suite the sound of it:
A blonde like Marilyn
in a blazing bikini
splashing in the waves
and laughing
when her top falls off
On a warm June night
serious could mean cereus:
the quality of turning
from a scraggly cactus
into a star,
suggesting the way
your lips flash a smile
Frown lines destroyed
and history recreated
if everything
were like the botanist's candy-k.
mr. armchair poet
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<sarah>
mr. armchair poet
everything were should be everything was, but that's a little thing, and there seems to be a bigger problem -- maybe linguists should be historians, but then I lose the idea of naming things; do linguists really name things or do they just study the naming of things -- aggggghhhh!!
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<Jack Chiefton>
mr. armchair poet
I believe they study the naming of things. They study sound patterns, they compare the locations of the esophagus and voice box of varied species to human beings. I don't think they name things. Besides a couple of spellings, I'm not sure what else to say about the poem, but i'll read it a few more times.
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<sarah>
mr. armchair poet
alrighty, thanks.
I think i'm just going to put it in the pile of fun to write, but don't make much sense poems that need to be worked on.
I think i'm just going to put it in the pile of fun to write, but don't make much sense poems that need to be worked on.