verb modification poem for Elisa Gabbert

Sunday, 8 April 2007

viii/xxx: HOW DARE YOU SAY HOW BEAUTIFULLY I SING

Raft pump in the TV hollow there, not so we
can frolic willy-nilly, but for living room
expeditions. Here, no more graves:
my manifest couch destiny. Solamente.
Apricot tea, responsible cheese. Remotely
abandoning the concept of grace. Therefore
distant. So distant! Damn sly you giggle!
I like when you do. Keep it up. Wait. My
apologies on the compliment. Indeed: that
invaded all for which you stand so well.

***

Not much of a poem or whatever. But I used several types of adverbs. At least one in every line. See if you can find all of them.

CRISIS: I am out of rules now. Please comment me some rules. Some rules are harder than others. Like you didn't already know that.

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non-word poem for Blake Butler

Saturday, 7 April 2007

vii/xxx: FIRMLE ILLICH

lers iz en mi en
zeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeirk-
en-day-lezen-fas.

nuh mer
en zar
umf.

ner zaddle ef zer
ef zaddle ur fich
lerz ez en mi enzoy
mer ir zen! mer ir zen!

no mer
en zar
umf.

nag der un ner mah
nesh nurf en val vulsh.
fishalt zerk en mick
valadu.

leerz ez en mi enzoy!
leerz ez en mi enzoy!

mirrrrrrrrrrrruh
zen.
mirrrrrrrrrrrrruh
zen.

nuh mer.

***

This was hard. I used a lot of z's. It sounds vaguely Germanic. I did this by reversing the MP3 of a song I wrote and transcribing random sounds. A bit of a failure, I think. It would've been more exciting and interesting to do some natural imitation, maybe, or think of some cooler concept of non-language sounds, use of letters as visual signifiers, etc. This just sounds like bad Simmish. Akoutana!

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gone but not gregorian

I've spent a nice, musical morning with the following things:

Richard Hawley -- M Ward crossed with '50s suit and tie and smoke ballads crossed with Britain.

Fredrik Ståhl's "When People Go to Work I Go to Bed" -- Um, I kind of resemble this song.

Hayward Williams -- Bark under your fingernails and blear under your eyelids (beautiful) Midwestern singer-songwriter stuff.

Larry Jon Wilson's 1975 LP New Beginnings -- Georgia country. "There's some folks [back there] 'care a little bout me."

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poetry mall

Wednesday, 4 April 2007

If you like small presses and small press poetry, check out Press Press Press, a new centralized blog shop for small poetry press purchases. Like Wal-Mart but without the bouncing face. Or, you know, the evil.

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little brother thinks the road is straight and fine

Monday, 26 March 2007

I'm so backlogged with email that I never blog.

I am frustrated.

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