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- From: steele@aem.umn.edu (Stephanie Steele)
- Subject: Re: Stephanie's drink poem / Marek (Re: the Realm's Defender, absent)
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- References: <7065@news.duke.edu> <steele.722024434@chip.aem.umn.edu> <1992Nov17.212242.8503@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:49:03 GMT
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- marek@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marek Lugowski) writes:
-
- >Stephanie,
-
- >There is no excuse here for mixing "thine" and "runeth" with "has passed"
- >and "has slid". We are talking lime green lycra and black velvet together.
-
- marek- i happen to wear a little lime green lycra and black velvet
- number to cocktail parties out here and get quite a few compliments
- on it, especially when i'm lucky enough to have a pair of black
- fishnets that aren't falling apart at the seams to complete the
- ensemble. i'll admit there aren't many that can pull this look off
- though. i'm just lucky i guess.
-
-
- >Your poem would be much more natural and intimate if the cliche "runeth
- >over" and the affected "thine"" were flushed and replaced with cleanly
- >flowing langaue of today. Alternatively, you could have affected the mood
-
- don't you mean with THEE 'cleanly, flowing langaue of today' (sic)?
-
-
- >of hath and doth and done a decent job of it.
-
- >Other than that, yours is a sunny, gurgling little poem. :)
-
- > -- Marek
-
- thanks.
-
- sls.
- >P.s. Note that Don stuck to a consistent style, with a questionable
- > "shall" at the end. A more precise poet would have written "will",
- > in American English. "Shall" connotes English Majorism in advanced
- > stages -- esp. if you just found out you have nothing cold to
- > drink... The correct exclamation is "fuck, what will I drink?",
- > followed by, "damn, I shall walk over to the Seven Eleven".
-
-
- >-------
-
- >In article <steele.722024434@chip.aem.umn.edu> steele@aem.umn.edu (Stephanie Steele) writes:
- >>jtrue@acpub.duke.edu (jtrue) writes:
- >>
- >>(that dz's 'double phallic persona' is away for a week)
- >>
- >>and p.o't. leaves us with this poem:
- >>
- >>
- >>
- >>>Realm in the form of the following poem:
- >>
- >>>A Moron in Springtime
- >>
- >>
- >>>I crossed a bridge and found upriver
- >>>another bridge. I crossed the bridge
- >>>and continued upriver.
- >>
- >>>Across many bridges I found the head
- >>>of this great river in the mountains
- >>>fed by mountain snow.
- >>
- >>>I could not really trust my memory.
- >>>Spring could be the first spring ever
- >>>here inside the mountains.
- >>
- >>>I brought lunch in a paper baggy
- >>>and on the banks of this great river
- >>>I ate my lunch.
- >>
- >>>I had fish inside my sandwich
- >>>chopped up finely for a texture
- >>>pleasing to my mouth.
- >>
- >>>I had water in a thermos,
- >>>but it's warm now from the sunlight.
- >>>What shall I drink?
- >>
- >>
- >>>Posthumous O'Toole
- >>>11/16/92
- >>
- >>drink the warm sunlight
- >>from the water
- >>from the cup
- >>from your thermos
- >>and after the last bit
- >>of sun
- >>the last lingering bit
- >>of light has passed
- >>your lips, tilt
- >>your cup to the sky
- >>and drink the glint
- >>of blue and white
- >>out of the water
- >>out of the cup
- >>from your thermos
- >>and after the last bit
- >>of cloud has slid
- >>down your throat
- >>tilt your cup
- >>to the river
- >>until it runneth
- >>over and then drink
- >>with thine eyes.
- >>
- >>sls.
- >>--
- >>
- >>=======================================================================
- >> Stephanie Steele
- >> steele@chip.aem.umn.edu
-
-
- --
-
- =======================================================================
- Stephanie Steele
- steele@chip.aem.umn.edu
-