[lit-ideas] Re: Bad Poetry Competition 2011
- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 03:10:44 -0500
"if I tried to write a bad poem I'd be
afraid
somebody would find meaning
in it and give it a prize"
Hate to tell you, RP, but I think you've gone and done what you didn't want
to do. You wrote a poem what's got meaning to it and a quixotic humor.
I ain't got no prize for you, but I think you done good. Sorry.
Mike Geary
Master Poetaster of Memphis
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Look
>
> if I tried to write a bad poem I'd be
> afraid
> somebody would find meaning
> in it and give it a prize
> and me a fellowship to the
> Academy of Poetasters
> in Arcadia ego which is
> south of Id
> where they grow
> passionate grapefruit
> and the dogs sleep in the sun
> all day like tired lions
> before the steps of the Temple
> of Juvenile Jupiter
>
> in the Badlands parched
> number lands of Euclid
> and flat as a note from Ulysses' trombone
>
> I need a number
> pick one
> O! I am so sorry
> but we have for you
> this wimp's prize
> three month's vacation
> in Samothrace
> including the Gathering of the Underdogs
> on Mount Suribachi overlooking
> the pissgreen sea where Wally Stevens
> lost his images
> and all esperanza.
>
> We should start a magazine
> full of hopeless beauty
>
> Dun
>
> ————————————————
> I will get into the spirit of the thing, soon.
>
> Robert Paul,
> having dark thoughts in a green shade
>
>
> Entries (multiple entries allowed) should be presented one at a time and
> given a title: e.g. "Look".
>
> The entry should then consist of two parts
>
> (1) A poem or an excerpt from a poem written by a poet.
>
> (2) Something written by the entrant, which may bear some resemblance or no
> resemblance to what is written by the poet.
>
> The aim of the competition is to make it difficult to guess which of the two
> is the real poet.
>
>
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