[lit-ideas] Re: Found Poetry
- From: "Mirembe Nantongo" <nantongo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:01:39 +0100
Thanks to Eric for his found poems. I find them all the time and format them
and then lose them. The best are from computer manuals and appliance
instruction leaflets and personal finance websites. Here is an old one from
different sources that somehow survived:
MY LIFE AS A MONK
(Courtesy of The Catholic Encyclopedia and Edward Lear)
cenobites
live in monasteries under
an abbot anchorites
live solitary lives
after long probation in a
monastery
sarabites live
by twos or threes together
without fixed rule or
lawfully constituted
superior as for
gyrovagi they are
a species of monastic
vagrant
their lives spent wandering from
one monastery to another
serve only to bring
discredit on the monastic profession i will be
a gyrovag and
on the coast of coromandel
where the early pumpkins grow i
will live with two
old chairs and half a candle
one old jug without a handle and
with these all my worldly goods i
will live
in discreditable happiness will
i not in
the middle of the woods in
between wandering from one happy
monastery to another
in between bringing
discredit
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Best, Mirembe
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