It was a bit funny, how I came upon this. I had never
heard of this fellow, with his "investigative poetry".
Actually, that phrase popped into my head, from absolutely
nowhere, and struck me as amusing. I thought that it
would be good for a laugh, so I wanted to build on it.
First thing that I did was a web search for the combination of
the two words, and bingo- I instantly discovered that somebody
beat me to it. Sigh... I had thought that this was the kind of
thing that would be purely my own.
It was like the time that I wanted to make a pun
about the "Lemon Pledge of Allegiance".
Perhaps I confuse bad puns with good poetry,
but bad puns are fun, and poetry should be self-entertaining,
not a chore. I thought that "Lemon Pledge" made a humorous
social statement, using cheesy commercialism to show
phony patriotism for what if often, really is- a deceptive sales
advertisment, trying to manipulate you for somebody's else's gain.
I searched the web, and dammit- it was already all over the
place. How is anybody supposed to do poetry, this way?
Shows the danger in assuming "plagiarism" necessarily in
similar writing. Human minds work so much alike, it is like
identical twins talking in their own secret language.
Also shows the weird mental interconnections that can
exist between poets - I find myself, all the time, bumping
into Dopplegangers - complete strangers who might have
been good friends in an alternate universe. You move
in synch, like the little Kray brothers, turning their heads in
unison, and announcing to their mother,
"We dreamed the same dream".
Tom Keske
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