poemranker ::Dear Mr. Poetry, could you hold my purse? <how does babbit do it> by horus8

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Dear Mr. Poetry, could you hold my purse? <how does babbit do it>

by horus8

Member since 2002 · Posted 9 Dec 2002 · 42 comments

It's a mystery!? Could it be the tap water? I fucking doubt it. It's education!? Some people deserve it more. Just don't ask me why. Here's a well placed yawn. To go with your diplomas, and your poetry. Imagination! Can't be taught at any school. Except, maybe his?

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[10] poetandknowit 9-Dec-02/4:58 PM Reply
This is # ten. Ten poems written in my lovely honor. Come on Bacchus. You are a pretty boy; a hit with all the ladies, do not be jealous. Just look at what the hard knock life has brought you: the talent to ramble (sometimes in decent fashion) and call it new and inspiring and saying anyone who questions the Henry Rollins style lacks depth or imagination or is not hip with the underground. The "subbacultcha." To learn to digest prison food properly. To drop names of actors that no one has ever heard of. Go find an acting job, slam the night away at the coffee shop, play your Tuesday night gigs and starve in honor the fact that you my friend are a true "artist" and me, with a wall of degrees, and a line of credit into the astrosphere earned with (yes, you guessed it) writing just doesn't "understand". There is art there. There is. Yes. Yes.
[10] Agemo-Z › poetandknowit 9-Dec-02/6:14 PM Reply
If you've got "a line of credit into the astrosphere earned with... writing", why don't you point us towards some of your published poetry? Or any of your published work, for that matter?
[10] poetandknowit › Agemo-Z 9-Dec-02/6:24 PM Reply
No problem. Send me your e-mail address to the account listed under babbit11 and I will be more than happy to send you links copies, etc. Shit, I will send you my dissertation. No one else reads it any more. If you are behind the times though, as your rejoinder the other day showed, 60% of my living is based as a freelance journalist. The more to read my work. The merrier. What subjects are you found of? I am sure some of the stuff would bore you to no end, as it does me.
[n/a] horus8 › poetandknowit 9-Dec-02/7:10 PM Reply
ha! ha! burp. snort. chorkle.gasp. awe awe awe choo.chewy chicky chew. here's to you.
[10] poetandknowit › horus8 9-Dec-02/7:21 PM Reply
Come on, I can dust it of just for you.
[10] poetandknowit › Agemo-Z 9-Dec-02/6:27 PM Reply
do you also want to see my income tax records for the last 10 years? Just drop me line if so. Or naked pictures of my wife. I also race (well more like raced these days) bikes. I can send pictures of that too.
[n/a] horus8 › poetandknowit 9-Dec-02/7:08 PM Reply
no.
[10] poetandknowit › horus8 9-Dec-02/7:37 PM Reply
Your loss. Trust me.
[10] poetandknowit › Agemo-Z 9-Dec-02/6:33 PM Reply
Just so you know, I do not have a link to a page where I keep my diary of redundant doings and mindless suburban thoughts of how I lounge about in my days as an undergrad submerged in deep profundities while perfecting the art of hand eye coordination over video games and masturbation. Just so you know.
[n/a] horus8 › poetandknowit 9-Dec-02/7:11 PM Reply
gee. can i?
[10] poetandknowit › horus8 9-Dec-02/7:37 PM Reply
Can you what? Masturbate? Can you? Can you what?
[n/a] horus8 › poetandknowit 9-Dec-02/7:08 PM Reply
whatever you say woodchuck. the song remains the same.
[10] poetandknowit › horus8 9-Dec-02/7:49 PM Reply
Now there is a clever reply. I bet you watch Good Will Hunting over and over. And tell yourself. It is okay. It is okay. Oh to be a Hollywood dreamer boy, living the life of movie stars. Ma, I got a new agent this week and now I am the new Tidy Bowl Man. The old fucker died. Drown. The irony. Hooray let's have a party and shoot up and relate our tough lives in purely confessional tones and call it fucking inventive. Oh yes. We are we are, the youth of the nation! Now that takes a wealth of imagination and a nation of millions of echo BOOMers. Come on young Genet. Come on the ghost of Ionesco. Give me a Zebra to go with that Rhino. Let's read poetry in airplane hangers while swinging upside down on trapeze. You are walking in the wrong shoes, my friend. Please.
[n/a] horus8 › poetandknowit 9-Dec-02/7:18 PM Reply
i have never been compared to henry rollins (you are a sharp cookie huh), i'll ponder the thought, but i would argue that if you listened to thorn apple the baby fat at www.gangbox.com ahhh henry rollins would be the last image in anyones mind...i'm articulate, not angry..i my friend am calm and collected. thanks i appreciate your support. i'm angry in maybe 5 of my fifty something posted mp3's sorry, nice try.
[10] poetandknowit › horus8 9-Dec-02/7:29 PM Reply
Well considering I have only seen Henry Rollins on stage once (as lead singer of BF) in god knows ?1984? at the VFW hall in downtown KC comparing you with his spoken word performance, which I can only imagine, is out on a limb. But he rambles, you ramble, he rants, you rant. And I imagine when you are on stage doing the slam thing that you move your arms like a suburban white kid trying to be black. Out of rhythm, but the other white suburban white kids watching you don't know the difference and they nod that hipster nod and they pull up their stocking caps (but it is California) and look at their girlies in the eye and say he ain't that good lookin' baby, but ooooooooooooh is he deep and he speaks the streets. He is the street. And actually, I have not listened to all 50. Sorry. But I am fond of the Petty cover and the Joe Dynamite. I forget the title of the others. And Sara (the student) well who knows. But she got a B on her paper. Keep on keepin on. Art rules. Poets unite. 10-4.
[n/a] horus8 › poetandknowit 9-Dec-02/8:33 PM Reply
you saw black flag at a vfw hall? that's brave, and kind of interesting not that 1984 was interesting unless you like cocaine, tubesocks and mork and mindy reruns. i have never tried once to be black nor has that thought even slightly entered my mind. also suburbs? good try, but way off. i have when staying with my father's (while he was serving various parts of his combined thirteen years incarcerations on three different occasions) parents (in troy, mi) encountered the suburban phenomena of the "wigger" (pathetic eminem type of cretin), but i never fell prey to the blackness of it all or the alluring? "hipness" (john lind walker did) is it still hip to not be hip i forget?! anyway i went to a different school every year of my life (i'm a depeche mode, rage, nirvana, wilco, beckish type of queens of the stone blee guy) sometimes two a year so...i would go out on a limb as to say, your clever stereotyping of me is outlandishly vague and wildly reaching. that's okay, some of us have levels and others are just plain leveled. also i am thrilled you get paid to write. i mean someone has to make up for all of the real overlooked talent starving to fucking death, and coincidentally, i'd rather hang out with my no name actor friends 'on crack' than someone who flashes their income taxes around anyday thankyou. good evening.
[n/a] god'swife › poetandknowit 9-Dec-02/10:00 PM Reply
He's much more Billy Holiday than Henry Rollins. Your discription couldn't be further off.
[10] poetandknowit › god'swife 9-Dec-02/10:47 PM Reply
Do not be a goof. The Henry Rollins comment goes way back to the days when Horus and I romped around Taos ripping each other up and down during the word circus. You know the one. You should have been there. It is for the Union of Poets Against Education. They set a ring up and everything. Create a character, do not create a charater. Say it is you, and then deny it. Whom the fuck knows and whom the fuck cares. And besides, are you both in your California dreamin' not also way off base. Well of course, but all in fun, eh? Well not with you. And besides who else will buy the drinks, you poor fucks. Hell no!!!
[n/a] god'swife › poetandknowit 9-Dec-02/11:08 PM Reply
You're drunk again. When I go out I carry a WWII SS flask filled with Reposado in my right boot. By the time I run out there's usually a bitch or two buying me rounds.
[10] poetandknowit › god'swife 9-Dec-02/11:20 PM Reply
No, actually, I am quite sober. I wish it were otherwise, but a project has me on coffee and such. See how easy it is to misinterpret in the virtual sense. And, good, the more men and women buying you drinks the more money I save. Economics 101. Of course, my dear friend Kevin, until he met the married love of his life, usually filled my tab with his frolics. Am I really in deeper than I care to be, or was it yet another phase. I go through them around the passage of age or the passage of time in a bar (go ahead "you fucking bastard"). Much like your menstrual dealings. "carry a WWII SS flask filled with Reposado in my right boot" now this truly makes me wonder.
[n/a] god'swife › poetandknowit 9-Dec-02/11:32 PM Reply
I made that part up. I only wear birckenstocks, and go to oxygen bars.
[10] poetandknowit › god'swife 9-Dec-02/11:36 PM Reply
So really, you live in Boulder. Hopefully without socks. O2 on me, flavored like cherries. So what don't you two make up. Have the movies gone to your head so that you no longer understand the real vs. the imagined. A good Paul Auster book.
[n/a] god'swife › poetandknowit 9-Dec-02/11:59 PM Reply
I were brown wool camping socks with them. The kind sock-monkeys are made of. I don't make-up too many things and when I do I usually leave a footnote.

Can you see Auriga and Taurus yet? I haven't been able to get out of the city. If you can please tell the Plieades I said keep smiling.
[10] poetandknowit › god'swife 10-Dec-02/12:03 AM Reply
The attraction meter is falling quickly. Considering I too am in a large city, the skies all look the same. But soon I will be on the islands and the world and the sky will look much different.
[n/a] horus8 › poetandknowit 10-Dec-02/9:31 AM Reply
are you talking about tahiti???
[n/a] god'swife › poetandknowit 10-Dec-02/12:02 AM Reply
I edited Poetry Does Not Pay, could you take a look?
[7] <~> › poetandknowit 9-Dec-02/8:18 PM Reply
are you counting mine? 'o man..' under limness. then that's 11.
[n/a] horus8 › <~> 9-Dec-02/8:42 PM Reply
i was bored studying my lines for tomorrow. thought i'd pick a fight with someone bright to help my evening out a bit is all really. he knows i'm just fucking around. i get paid blee blee blee pthewpt (picture my tongue vibrating like the spike cat in doonesbury).
[8] -=SeTTle=- 9-Dec-02/4:58 PM Reply
1, these are haiku plural 2, i wrote a poem about you and i'd be honored if you read it which is to say i won't stop bothering you until you do because i love you and i want to have tons of babies with you and nobody but you and live with you etcetcetcwergfcerfderdfefd the damn thing scratched me as i was installinig a cat door
[7] <~> 9-Dec-02/8:08 PM Reply
what's with all the vinegar, h?
[10] poetandknowit › <~> 9-Dec-02/8:15 PM Reply
He is menstruating.
[7] <~> › poetandknowit 9-Dec-02/8:20 PM Reply
oh.
is the moon full as well?
[n/a] horus8 › poetandknowit 10-Dec-02/12:14 PM Reply
bastard! enjoy the organic mutton. have a safe flight.
[n/a] horus8 › poetandknowit 10-Dec-02/6:03 PM Reply
just because my sister comes over and uses my computer does not mean i'm menstruating. i hope you know we're not the same people.
my audition went well today. i might just be a dr. yet. ha! ha!
[10] poetandknowit › horus8 10-Dec-02/7:13 PM Reply
It is perfectly respectable to work at Taco Bell.
[n/a] horus8 › poetandknowit 10-Dec-02/8:35 PM Reply
my girlfriend works at boston market.
i'm inbetween jobs
p__r___a i think? (god's wife) is doing in home nursing now, and some other freelance activities (she's not my sister she's one of my dear friends and my son's godmother, she helped raise me).
so, i don't quite get your taco bell reference, (perhaps that's your attempt at humor, because i'm part columbian and she's part equadorian?) but i don't quite get you either, so what the hell.
also, have you ever had a mexican pizza at three in the morning drunk on coors and jaegermeister? that's what i thought amigo. the next time you go to the 'bell' think, and know, there is a loogie in your mt. dew. from you know who. kid chicky chaw.m
[10] poetandknowit › horus8 10-Dec-02/8:52 PM Reply
Can't say I know you were columbian, only greek. I avoid fast food and Coors (well) and jaeger - Sorry, bro. It was the first fast food chain that came to mind. But, nontheless, no subtext where you are looking.
[n/a] horus8 › poetandknowit 20-Dec-02/12:21 PM Reply
Subtext is everywhere. Even on toothpaste tubes. Did you ever notice something always goes miserably wrong this time of year repeatedly? i fucking despise the holidays..i'm not going to ruin it for everyone else, but everyone should know that at&t and fingerhut are SATAN SATAN SATAN. that is all i care to say. EVIL EVIL EVIL. would anyone like some peanut brittle?o
[8] Robert K Foster 21-Jan-03/7:36 AM Reply
except for the shouting, i like this. I think the "!"s could go.
[10] bunniesnangels 4-Mar-03/12:19 PM Reply
i think i love you.
[n/a] horus8 › bunniesnangels 4-Mar-03/12:41 PM Reply
Like wise i'm sure, did you read the comments? They are hilarious. My feet are cold i stink and need a shower. bye.
[10] bunniesnangels › horus8 4-Mar-03/12:48 PM Reply
oh, i always read the comments. in here, they're often better than the poems themselves. quite often. usually. damn near always. and thanks for sharing. personal hygiene is very important.