poetry critical

online poetry workshop

Thread

Return To Index31-40 of 46
re: WUT WERDZ R OK 2 YEWS?  mr_e  8 Oct 08 11:40AM Thread Closed

extremely horrendously disasterously stupendously monstrously / fat is ok

but

obese

is a no no
..

apparently

re: WUT WERDZ R OK 2 YEWS?  nugunz  8 Oct 08 1:04PM Thread Closed

Don't call Japanese food Chinese food.

It'll jump off the plate and kill yo ass.

re: WUT WERDZ R OK 2 YEWS?  nugunz  8 Oct 08 1:04PM Thread Closed

Don't call Japanese food Chinese food.

It'll jump off the plate and keel yo ass.

re: WUT WERDZ R OK 2 YEWS?  nugunz  8 Oct 08 1:04PM Thread Closed

Whoops.  Twice even.

re: WUT WERDZ R OK 2 YEWS?  chuckle_s  8 Oct 08 1:18PM Thread Closed

cantonese

offensive to sufferers of severe patelloid rheumatism

re: WUT WERDZ R OK 2 YEWS?  unknown  12 Oct 08 5:25PM Thread Closed

Best to forego pain, the surgical brain
doesn't love nouns.

re: WUT WERDZ R OK 2 YEWS?  unknown  12 Oct 08 5:26PM Thread Closed

The Woman Who Loved Worms
(From a Japanese legend)

Disdaining butterflies
as frivolous,
she puttered with caterpillars,
and wore a coarse kimono,
crinkled and loose at the neck.

Refused to tweeze her brows
to crescents,
and scowled beneath dark bands
of caterpillar fur.

Even the stationery
on which she scrawled
unkempt calligraphy,
startled the jade-inlaid
indolent ladies,
whom she despised
like the butterflies
wafting kimono sleeves
through senseless poems
about moonsets and peonies;
popular rot of the times.

No she loved worms,
blackening the moon of their nails
with mud and slugs,
root gnawing grubs,
and the wing case of beetles.

And crouched in the garden,
tugging at her unpinned hair,
weevils queuing across her bare
and unbound feet.

Swift as wasps, the years.
Midge, tick and maggot words
crowded her haikus
and lines on her skin turned her old,
thin as a spinster cricket.

Noon in the snow pavilion,
gulping heated saki
she recalled Lord Unamuro,
preposterous toad
squatting by the teatray,
proposing with conditions,
a suitable marriage.

Ha! She stoned imaginary butterflies,
and pinching dirt,
crawled to death's cocoon
dragging a moth to inspect
in the long afternoon.

re: WUT WERDZ R OK 2 YEWS?  unknown  12 Oct 08 5:28PM Thread Closed

Who is this woman who loved worms? "I see her in some way, as the older woman I would like to become. I have part of her in me, the imprint, but there's something about that wonderful sense of self that she has. Also, she's cultivating things, she's inspecting the worms. She's the scientist as well, and the lover of precision, but she is very much her own person, however preposterous or larger than life she might sometimes seem."
Is she alive and taking names? "Yes, and giving names, as what we as poets do. I find it gives me great joy to give words to what was a cloud of what was once a blur. So, yes, she is out there giving the worms names and cutting them open."

re: WUT WERDZ R OK 2 YEWS?  unknown  12 Oct 08 5:33PM Thread Closed

m m m maggot is offensive to offensive people

re: WUT WERDZ R OK 2 YEWS?  netskyIam  12 Oct 08 5:35PM Thread Closed

jewish niggah alabammy mammy lesbo pot licker is particularly offensive if your name happens to be Aunt Jemimah (google) and your TRUE self has just been "outed" to the hole worrrrrld.


:0

the jazz singer

Return To Index
Previous | 1 2 3 4 5 | Next


0.939s