[lit-ideas] Re: FOUND POETRY
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:55:55 -0700
Aw, come on Irene. Mike is capable of taking pot-shots in prose. He
wouldn't have written this if that's all he intended. The poem is much
bigger than that & not bad - IMO.
Lawrence
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From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Andy Amago
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 6:19 AM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: FOUND POETRY
Mike is taking potshots because he can't just say what's on his mind. If
you don't like my use of the word retarded, then I agree. I was in a hurry,
couldn't think of another word, threw that one in there. And no doubt you
think I'm retarded anyway. I imagine that's why you're writing poetry about
it.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Geary <mailto:atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 7/3/2006 2:04:58 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] FOUND POETRY
FOR OMAR
For the first time
since the beginning of time
way back then when
expectancy
first began
and man
began to plan
suspecting he might live
long enough to expect
life in the sense of
still being alive --
back then, not now
it's down now
expectancy
,that is,
down around our heels
like trousers
and life's got our wallet
and is running down the alleyway
and she can run faster with her skirt up
than you with your pants down
so no wonder.
Chances are 6 out of 10
you're too fat to run anyway
or any where,
if you're American
but you're traditional
which is conditional
on whether
you're Mike, Wallace or Grommit
(speaking of Mike, did he give up the chase?)
that is to say,
not of the USA
-- tradition is so passe
it's a wonder any of youse
is still alive --
still even the Rolling Stones
cain't get no satisfaction
-- got no traction
one hit wonders --
one wonders
why the Simpsons
are the longest-running
American sitcom
and the longest-running
American animated program
of all time since even the beginning of time
which makes them like
Holy shit --
Traditional!!!!!!
That explains it all. They ain't American.
"More like the Waltons
less like the Simpsons,"
Bush once railed
in a failed attempt
to make Matt Groening
go back to Portland
and mature, for sure,
just like his face-lifted base
which is all matured up and don't joke
none about old
retarded people
or old people
or people of old
retarded or not.
Ah, Portland.
They say there's a pall over Portland,
caused by so many ancient philosophers,
but that's just another retarded age joke.
Mike Geary
Memphis
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