|
|
Magnet poetry
At my favorite writing cafe, Stacy's Coffee Parlor on Route 7, they have a bunch of poetry magnets. I'm not sure it's a full set. It doesn't have the word "alone". How can you do poetry without the word "alone"? I mean, okay, granted, you can, but, like, if you were making poetry magnets, which would you include, "alone" or "solitary"? "Solitary" -- bleah. Maybe not bleah, depending... "a solitary crow sits", that could be all right. Or "A solitary muffin sits," better. But, you know, a narrower range of contexts.
Also, you can't repeat words, except "and". That's pretty rough on a poem.
Anyway:
Posted by benrosen at January 24, 2006 11:42 AM | Up to blog
time to play
cocktail america!every peach kid &
full moon summer motor &
prison-paired dirt rhythm and
lotion lounge boys' veins --we sizzle like carnival skin --
ricochet off your anatomy,
machine girl!never wait,
remember,
or be
like a stone
The lack of repeated words is a regular frustration when I attack the poetry magnets. I know it wouldn't sell enough copies to be all marketable'n'stuff, but I'd rather have a Beckett Freak poetry magnet set with, oh, twenty different words, but lots of copies of each.
Thanks,
-V.
