[lit-ideas] Re: SUNDAY POEM

Sunday, September 12, 2004, 9:18:25 PM, Stan Spiegel wrote:

SS> Hi Mike - You're right! I need to just flow with your poetry, because you
SS> do. Doo-be-dooby do. I do!

Right!

Here's Benjamin Zephaniah:

Dis poetry is not Party Political

Not designed fe dose who are critical.

Dis poetry is wid me when I gu to me bed 

It gets into me dreadlocks 

It lingers around me head 

Dis poetry goes wid me as I pedal me bike 

I've tried Shakespeare, respect due dere 

But did is de stuff I like. 

[Dis Poetry, 1992] 



SS> Stan

SS> ----- Original Message ----- 
SS> From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
SS> To: "LIT-IDEAS" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
SS> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 4:14 PM
SS> Subject: [lit-ideas] SUNDAY POEM


>> JUST AN OLD FASHIONED LOVE SCAT
>>
>> So there I was crying like a ten year old all because
>> I wanted my lover and never could I have her,
>> alas and alack, wasn't that just my luck
>> to fall in love with a quacking duck,
>> well, the last I saw her she was quacking
>> at some squirrels in the park. I watched her until dark
>> then she crossed her eyes at me and called me a cab.
>> "I ain't no cab," I said, but it was too late, the wind
>> which did not like all that laughter
>> got its back up and told the Skipper,
>> yes, the one what sailed the HMSS King Edward VII,
>> He ordered me brought before him.
>> "What means this," he asked,
>> "skeep-beep de bop-bop beep bop bo-dope skeetle-at-de-op-de-day?"
>> I thought it odd that he should ride a horse aboard a ship,
>> but nonetheless I was suddenly hip:
>> It means there's no making sense. Just go with the sound.
>> Call a way, Calloway, I'll ride your rhythms down
>> to the end of the town where all lovers drown
>> when the passion plays itself out.
>>
>>
>> Mike Geary
>> Memphis



-- 
 Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK   
mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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