[stylist] One Poet's Woe

Mon Jul 20 20:37:15 UTC 2015

Oh god, don't we all do that? Smile.

Bridgit

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Hey Friends,

Just wanted to pass on an experience here.  I'd been working on a new poem
for the last hour.  It was more like an exercise, which sometimes launches
into a real walking talking poem.  But this morning, that's not how it
worked out.  I got down to about line 7 or so, took a look at the whole
thing and decided it was a spoiled confection of some sort, and threw it
back into the kiln, to mix metaphors. I have a sort of long term game in
which I measure my private success as a poet by the slowly ascending number
of poems in my poetry folder.  But adding to the score is not to be this
morning, iambic fans.  I got down to the last line, took a look at it and
just torched it.  I got a few good rhymes out of it and some notions for a
poem about breezes, so I'll come back to the theme. But as for this
iteration?  Burn, witch, burn!

--Bill

-- 

"Oh, Sophie!  Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"

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