[lit-ideas] Re: Saturday Poem (without the annoying,computer-generated interjections)
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 20:42:33 -0500
Like all dissolute reprobates, I've dreamed of owning a pub most of my life.
But, as Richie has discovered, the key to pubbery is the name. I never
could decide among Failed Revolution, Out On Day Pass, Pariah's A Go-Go, The
Draft Board, Yellow Snow, Down And Dirty or Mike's Mistake. Ergo, I sit in
a dive at Belvedere and Madion, uncertain and still undecided. Exiled
Thucydides knew what was in a name.
Mike Geary
Memphis
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Ritchie" <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 2:30 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Saturday Poem (without the
annoying,computer-generated interjections)
> on 9/25/04 12:25 PM, David Ritchie at ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >
> > Tough Choice, From A Field Guide to Seashore Life
> >
> > You'll maybe remember a Guinness competition,
> > the winner won a pub?
> > Well I've been thinking,
> > what I'd name it if I did.
>
>
> > My own ideal pub is perched on a cliff,
> > a good windy walk away from life,
> > so I'd be thinking something wet or whistley,
> > something with a sense of sea,
> > something slithery even,
> > like whisky
> > or a whelk.
>
>
> > How well real tidal dwellers' names sound.
> > Open a field guide and try the sculpins :
> > grunt, rosylip, tidepool, saddleback, mosshead and fluffy,
> > a full Beatrix Potter litter of fish
> > waiting for their own heart-warming tale.
>
>
> > Deeper into the guide, I imagine the following,
> > swinging on a sign behind the wind:
> > The Rough-Mantled Doris
> > The Boring Sponge
> > The Fingered Limpit
> > The Tinted Wentletrap
>
>
> > I consider,
> > The Dusky Tegula
> > The Gumboot Chiton
> > The Emarginate Dogwinkle
> > The Black Prickleback
>
>
> > I flirt with,
> > The Nail Brush
> > The Bent-Nosed Macoma
> > The Hairy Mopalia
> > The Opalescent Nudibranch
>
>
> > Then I try,
> > The Tucked Lirularia
> > The Blenny Eel
> > The Sea Pork
> > Vosnesenty's Isopod
>
>
> > Finally it comes down to,
> > "Nuttall's Cockles" or "The Dire Welk."
> > Would anyone, I wonder, walk a way to a welk?
> > Even if I made mussels?
> >
> >
> > David Ritchie
> > Portland, Oregon
> >
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