Friday, November 16, 2018
The Fate of Some Quotes… & Odors
first night she’s asked
Is it still the same old glory,
the fight for love and story?
“He had it bass-ackwards!”
she tells Shift Partner,
Jippy Erst after they book
the pie-eyed questioner.
“At any rate, it obviously
reeks of piss,” shrugs he.
“It’s bad enough to ever smell
it just a little off yourself!”
“Could ruin a lot of things,”
he nodded.
Labels: allusion, drunk, fear, personal, police, quote, urine
Friday, August 10, 2018
Old Question
Where,
presently,
the moss?
Can you hear it?
(We talked between the rooms,
|
Until the moss had reached our lips,
|
And covered up our names.)
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Labels: allusion, death, Emily Dickenson, poetry
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Recycling
“They both turned
to gaze
for a moment
at the corpse. . .
It remained
laughing there
in the grass”*
Not enough given
to the comedic
aspect
of war. Dead clowns
as an example.
*Steven Crane’s words
Labels: allusion, clowns, comedy, Crane, death, literary allusion, Red Badge of Courage, war, war as comedy
Monday, July 25, 2016
You have signed out from another location
Thus, Hills found someone else had been rewriting his blog.
“Wonderfully literate now. Not as bare bones. Great fun googling the allusions!”
He prefers being clever to being himself.
“As everyone should,” adds he.
He has stopped writing in order to fall in love with the Pretender.
He can tell it’s a female, the way he can tell everything.
Labels: allusion, blog, cleverness, female, literary, literary allusion, literate, pretender, writing
Friday, April 17, 2015
Societal Seeing
“I see,” said Dorsel.
“I too!” from Max, followed
by Maxine's nod.
Rands, however, took some
convincing from them.
Finally came aboard!
But then Bertram announced (He always
announced!)
"In truth, you all SEE nothing but what
you're programmed to see. That hasn't
changed in many years, and won't.”
"Uh huh?" laughed Dorsel.
“Your ideas, even when you think them
daring, fit a well-worn groove the
authorities are more than comfortable with.”
His Loretta entered the room. "Stop it, Bert!
People can stand only so much reinventing
of the wheel."
“It's completely caved in and utterly useless!”
spat Bert. “Decay is all!”
When those two left, Maxine sneered
“Such men are dangerous! L-except.”
L-except meant that as a literary allusion
it was free of the requirement to use "persons."
Labels: allusion, conformity, fear, future, literary, politically correct, reinventing wheel, sexism, to see
Saturday, November 13, 2010
None So Vile
-So this guy appointed to lit department at prestigious university.
-But a serpent in the fescue?
-Lunch.
-Harmless enough for most. Even academics.
-Allusion combat. Much out-clevering whilst zapping
the other with the table wit of lit.
-Did our champion acquit himself with valor?
-Mostly, but often his stomach churned going to class.
-Is it a story with this acid end?
-He left for a small college where they really respected his specialty and baked each other casseroles.
-What was his specialty?
-I don't remember.
-Emblematic of the weight of your tale. Of a whole lot, really.
-Oh well, anyway, every profession must have its silly
pseudo-contests.
-None So Vile
Labels: academic, allusion, table wit
