[lit-ideas] HOW TO WRITE A POEM
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:56:59 -0500
HOW TO WRITE A POEM
First,
pick a word,
any word,
any old word at all
(here's a hinth:
don't pick 'orange' or 'month' or 'plinth'
because soon you'll have to find a rhyme
so look for ones with sounds a dime
a dozen,
one with lots of phonic cousins) ---
which reminds me,
suppose a man
loves a woman
and a woman
loves a man
suppose now,
if you can,
they get married
in Mississippi
(where they both lived as happy as a hippy)
but ten years later things turned nippy
so
to Vagas they go
and get a divorce,
of course.
Now I ask you
would they still be cousins?
All in all
it's much easier
to write a poem
than it is
to right a Brougham.
so take it easy
in the corners.
unless you want to join the mourners.
Mike Geary
Memphis
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