i had a teacher once make it very clear that in order to not sound like a fool, you had to pronounce poem, “pome” but make the o sound more pretentious. anyway, i’ve never really had an appreciation for poetry, other than shiel silverstein, dr suess, lewis carroll, roald dahl… you know, the rhymey-types.
i tried getting into e e cummings, but that was simply because of his use of lowercase.
i just came across a poem by frank o’hara which i kinda really like; not sure exactly why…
As Planned
After the first glass of vodka
you can accept just about anything
of life even your own mysteriousness
you think it is nice that a box
of matches is purple and brown and is called
La Petite and comes from Sweden
for they are words that you know and that
is all you know words not their feelings
or what they mean and you write because
you know them not because you understand them
because you don’t you are stupid and lazy
and will never be great but you do
what you know because what else is there?
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