Dovina
on What is a poet by INTRANSIT
4 Oct 2004, 5:30 AM
How do porcupines make love, particularly the hair-trigger kind? I ask because of this poisonous twitch. It's getting in the way.
The Hughes and McDannells
In Glasgow wear flannels,
The Marches in Carisle wear tweeds;
But all of them doff 'em
For Foul Sue of Poffham
And seem (but aren't quite) the same breed.
There's only one type of footwear
That can truly be said to suit
The feet of an English gentleman:
The sturdy "Welly" boot.
Named after the intrepid Duke
Whose hobby was to shoot
The naughty, dirty Frenchmen:
A toast to the "Welly" boot!
The boot is made of rubber
And stands in high repute
With the King and all his serving-men:
Give praise to the "Welly" boot!
The wearer of the Oxford brogue
Looks like a common brute
When stood beside the wearer
Of the English "Welly" boot!
A sign of a valiant hero
Whom all the world salute:
Give praise to God and England;
Shout "Huzzah!" for the "Welly" boot.
What the hell do you think English is written in, if not alternating vowels and consonants? I propose that you just heard something about haikus somewhere and decided you'd splatter it anywhere haikus were involved without thinking really hard about whether it made any sense. In fact, I double-dare you to find me a haiku (transliterated, if possible) which demonstrates a skillful use of an alternating "vowel-consonant pattern". If it's the case - as it might be for all I know - that Japanese is intrinsically more alternatingly vowelly-consonanty than English, then what the fuck do you expect? That anyone who wants to write a haiku should write it in Japanese? Hey, what a magnificent idea!!!!!!
PS-"this ebbing story of hope for an unlikely romance" is fucking beautiful.
"whether the statement 'Kenneth Tynan was a good critic' is true" is not what we were questioning. We were questioning whether "The best poets are surely the best critics."
That whole sentence is improperly phrased, ungrammatical, and needlessly ambiguous. You might just have said, "As regards the statement 'Kenneth Tynan was a good critic', your 'is bow'ls' means approximately the same thing as 'is not true' (or some other such negation)." At any rate, this is still not the case. "Is bow'ls" is an affirmative statement, simply describing the condition of being like a bow'l, I imagine.
And you don't know how to use "one" correctly. You just think it makes you sound kind of scholarly and hard to argue with, when it really just makes you sound pretty dim.
"Anything other than ass hat" is not what I said. Please, try to quote me correctly.
As far as I can remember from undergrad Intro to Logic and Proof (Course Average: a respectable B+), the converse of something is not negative. And what you're talking about isn't really a converse, anyway, so just shut up.
Lovely. If this is a stram of consciousness, you must have a mind full of interesting information. Thank you for writing this interesting piece.
Haiku, even when westernised and lacking seasonal references or alterating vowel-consonant pattern, remains a powerful form of poetry. It works well in this ebbing story of hope for an unlikely romance.
Nice. Isn't it scary, for women: to think that at the core of each man is the desire to dominate and manipulate women, and for men: to realise that beneath all the things we tell ourselves about love, respect and art, is an animal trying to become alpha male.
nice theme, could use development in my oppinion.
No magic mushrooms. Just a poem about a picture that used to hang on my wall.
Some good thoughts here, but the title gives you away. I'd rather see a title that only hints. And some grammar glytches make it choppy.
Your poetry comes from some "tranquil spring" and you are truly "good"???? I was about to criticize, but then I looked at my own reasons for this futility and find find them just as ridiculous.
You're getting all choppy on us, truckdriver, swerving all over the beaten path like a meverick mermaid's man in a mania. Is this a kind of second childhood? Not bad in a punk sort of way.
It's the cahmpagne. Love and marriage - they seldom go together. Dream on and enjoy the slow dance at a wedding that isn't yours. Good thoughts
I'm sorry it makse sense in either sense. I sense a senseless thankfulness.
I've been busy with a different sort of imaginary life. Thanks, it's nice to be missed.
very very true.
four.
As we were questioning whether the statement 'Kenneth Tynan was a good critic' is true one would need to transform 'is bow'ls' to is not true. 'Anything other than ass hat' is the converse of 'ass hat' and that makes two negatives.
"The PS question, well it did have effectively two negatives (anything other than) and (is bowl's). "
Wrong.