[lit-ideas] Re: Bad Poetry Competition 2011

  • From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:18:55 -0700

International award-winning poet and abstract painter!  You can even hear him 
read this: http://www.patrickjohnmills.com/streetsoffire.htm

Urgh.

And the other one?

The past cannot be changed perhaps
What can be changed is what the past becomes
Which changes how the past exists

Maybe some surgery and suturing would help?  Nope, they don't survive the 
"change one word" test.  "The future cannot be changed perhaps..."  "Marmite 
cannot be changed perhaps..."  "Underpants cannot be changed perhaps..."

David Ritchie,
casting lines with aspersions hooked in
Portland, Oregon  

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