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Mon 8 Nov, 2004 03:35 pm
What price sobriety, America?
Do you wake up and say
Oh ****, what did we do last night?
I have a foggy memory
of redifining a common word.
What the heck was it?
It had something to do with
U.S.A.
It's coming back to me now,
'United'. That's the one.
Yeah, we were so hammered.
I think I said something like,
if we can't unite,
we might as well live
at the north pole
with the damn eskimoes.
Then I got real clever-like,
and said we'd be polarized,
frozen in ice,
until hell itself could free us.
Thank Jesus
the indoctornater
didn't need to keep me too long
in emergency.
Good bourbon
breeds ignorance,
and ignorance
makes you's smart.
?????????.
You accusin' us mericans of being souses?
Nope, jeb, er, jes ignant sometimes. De alkyhol was a metafor someone else who should be in office. (I was wondering if anyone would comment)
Oh, my Gawd, Cav. A political allusion; a state of confusion; a few Jebby knocks and scotch on the rocks.
That's how I saw it. Where has Kelly Vinal been? I've been enjoying his book.
Interesting factoid: "Souse" is pickled pig's feet in some parts...kinda makes you go hmmmm....
Well, as W.C. Fields observed when a woman called him a souse;
Sou se, madam, sou se.
And there's a dryland oyster called sousefy(think that the spelling)
Wrote an e-mail to Kelly. No response. Guess he's somewhere in England.
Hey. I wrote a poem inspired by your teddy bear, too.
Hmm...I'm sure he will return. Where's the poem? I'll have a look.
Hold on. I'll take a look. Your poem reminded me of the childhood story called The Old Doll and the New Doll.
If ignorance makes one smart, then I be a genius!!!!
I like it Cav, my drunken friend :-)
Heh heh, the drunk thing was my metaphor for what seems to me to be a completely blind American public. That's why I chose bourbon for the last stanza, a good ole boy's drink, fermented (or fomented) in the South.
I was speaking metaphorically, of course :-)
u r my beshtest buddy :-)
Arrgh! Internet spelling! Be afraid...be very afraid...
Dear Mr. Vinal. I know you mostly comment on poetry, but I would like you to have a look at a prose piece I've been working on. You can find it here:
http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=36533
Cav, Being the type-A kinda guy I am, I have indeed relegated my comments to that which I believe I have standing - poetry. I have a novel in the works, which is with my editor right now. When that is published, and if it is well-received, then I will certainly feel I have standing to make comments on prose. For you, however, I will step off my narrow line and review your piece :-)
By the way, I respect your views. Please post a review of Vapours of Promise in the forum after you are done reading it and experiencing the included mediabook CD. I am trying to encourage the fine poets of this forum to have their own work published and reviewed here. Think of me as a guinnea pig for this purpose :-)
Give me a little while to review your prose. I like to fully understand things before I comment thereon.
No problem, kelly. I'm almost through your book, and just choosing pieces to comment on.
Hmmmm... I think he is building a catalog of profanity, readers... achtung! :-)
Ahh, I prefer scatalogs to catalogs, and own a dog, so no cat-a-logs in my litter today.
Or a reading from Dr. Seuss, perhaps?
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