Sunday, April 13, 2014

Day 16...appliance or kitchen item with other skills or intelligences.



Day 16....appliance or kitchen item with other skills or intelligences.

I submit my poetic short story "Pervasive" that predicted the Internet of Things 2002


http://www.bigbridge.org/issue8/miamirhondak.htm


Pervasive

We didn't mean to create the new age Adam. It happened as we had the task of figuring out whose life pods we'd put offline. The needs of the greater, we'd race to each other. The needs of the future we couldn't calculate. We would purr from sentient coffeepot to climatologically-correct unused bed a fatal algebra that eventually only equaled life for one.
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Day 13--bird looking at Emily Dickinson

Prompt: bird looking at Emily Dickinson


Don't come up

Did she need to exist
Only with a naked pen
As the naked sky called her
Clothed in words
A taunt brevity
Inverted Mae West
Perverted Mae West
Stage.
Desk.
Dust.
Musk.
What's a woman poet that bares soul?
Don't come up and see me some time.




http://libguides.scf.edu/content.php?pid=550758&sid=4537523

Day 12 --the creeper? Bubble Pack Ghost Trap


Bubble pack trap
Hear the ghost
Pop. Crack. Pop. Pop.
Walk back to bunny pen.
Where they, in the dark they, so small
Frail necked
Thump.thump. They thump.
Hit the fence,
Coyote spirit
Please eat cats, squirrels, rats.
The dog and. Bunnies here
Not tasty. No. No. Not.
We taste like daikon radishes and tomorrow.






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Day 11 -jobs

Based on State College oh Florida Swamp Scribes Prompt
http://libguides.scf.edu/content.php?pid=550758&sid=4537500

Job
W job?
Where? When can I start?
Why can't you advance. Who can?
Oh jobs. Open.
Ahh. I am.
Low job.
I'll do it.
I will.
Blow job.
It's below
I so
I know more than
I know, I know.
When i go. . I go hard.
No.no.
Negotiate. Dignity.
Swallow inevitability.

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Day 10- about my very tortured friend...

PROMPT

Write a very conversational poem to a friend that frequently struggles with life. Charles Bukowski wrote this poem about his "tortured friend" Peter. It is a personal, intimate and frank conversation between friends. Make it funny, heartfelt or sad. Choose your own tone.

Begin: About my very tortured friend, ________....

Bukowski's grave stone reads, "Don't try." It's his advice to writers.

"'What do you do? How do you write, create?' You don't, I told them. You don't try. That's very important: 'not' to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like its looks you make a pet out of it." --Charles Bukowski

Part of "About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter...

...“I can’t quit my job,” he said. “I always have trouble getting a
job. I walk in, they look at me, listen to me talk and
they think right away, ah ha! he’s too intelligent for
this job, he won’t stay
so there’s really no sense in hiring
him.


now, YOU walk into a place and you don’t have any trouble:
you look like an old wino, you look like a guy who needs a
job and they look at you and they think:
ah ha!: now here’s a guy who really needs work! if we hire
him he’ll stay a long time and work
HARD!”.....
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About My Very Tortured Friend ( in the manner of Bukowski)

He calls and tells me there's a pirate ship floating in the clouds above him.
Figurative? literal? Fuckered up? Drunk off his tits? What?
He says his life is intersecting in the clouds over his head and he can"t breathe
That other self that is he, up in the clouds
The sails are illuminated by the moon
I"d expect no less I tell him
Did I tell you about the time someone dosed me with K?
I was praying to a shrimp boat almost sitting on shore
I couldn't move
It had flood lights fixed on me like gravity beams. Serious as fuck.
He got mad. A pirate boat that's real. Not a K Hole shrimp boat.
You never believe me,
Which wasn't true. I believed him too much.
I still look for him on the pirate ship in the clouds.

Day 9 -identity

PROMPT from Professor Marcy Murray

Write a poem about identity--- self-identity versus what others see; are they the same? What about how you see others?

Consider age --Grandma is an old lady, but she hasn't always been one.

Look at gender roles & stereotypes: "Sissy is a little tomboy, she must be a lesbian."

Consider race, physical/mental abnormalities and look at how identity depicted in faery tales, novels or even politics.

Examples:

Passing. Toi Derricotte.
Song of Myself. Walt Whitman.

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Is it Real?

Yes. Yes. Yes. Mothasucka
It's real. Bam.
Is that real?
Bam. Bam.
Is that real?
If I tell you you're ugly-is that hurt real?
If I replace your Diet Coke with a coke-is the diet real?
If I drive down a one way street-is it still one way?
If I kiss you with tongue all in your mouth-are your words mine?
If I walk your dog -am I your dog walker?
If I marry your mama-am I your daddy?
If I drive your car -am I your chauffeur?
If I live with my heart on my sleeve-am I naked?
You don't know me.
You don't know me.
You know me not.
And that, you suckweed, is real.

day 8 - social media

PROMPT by Swamp Scribe Joshua Felthoff

Social media, despite the intention of connecting people together, seems to drift society away from being truly interactive with one another.

Craft a poem that reflects your personal view of social media.

Just a thought:

What happens when a poet uses Instagram? Rio Jones: Poet Laureate of Instagram


http://libguides.scf.edu/NaPoWriMoDay8

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Revenge Porn Backfire

All that was recognizable
Really all it had was her voice saying things
Things, such things
That really she could have said at a horse track
Spank that ass
Come on, come on
A little to the outside,
But this dark horse showed up on YouTube,
Where she was finally blessed
Blessed such blessings
That her body had a wondrous beauty
A sultry counter note
More than one finish line.