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Thomas Keske (ptkeske@comcast.net) 2008/05/14 21:35

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VOLUNTEER POETS NEEDED

There are a number of understaffed poetry
projects that are in need of immediate assistance.

I am going to be in France for the next
couple weeks, so must delegate this authority.

There are so many worthy projects.
Won't you please help?

For example:

* THE FISH LADY OF FLORIDA

   Remember the woman who went boating
   in Florida, and got hit in the face
   by a flying sting-ray, and died
   instantly of the head trauma?

   That pathetic woman and her ridiculous
   death, probably more than anything in recent
   memory, highlights the morbid absurdity
   and the true character of the existential
   hell in which we all live.

   This poor, ridiculous woman deserves to
   have her story immortalized in poetry.

   The correct style for this poem would be
   doggerel, because that would most poignantly
   capture the triviality of human existence.

   However, not just any, old doggerel will do.

   This project requires capturing irreverently
   every nuance of the pointlessness of the
   pain-wracked comedy that reduces each and
   every human being to little more than the
   level of the dumb, freakish fish that
   capriciously ended this woman's existence
   on earth.

   This is not to make light of the pitiful woman-
   Indeed, it is to bring home the point that
   we are all just like her.  Never more than
   a Flying Fickle Fish of Fate in The Face
   away from gruesome death.

   This poetry project would be an opportunity
   to demonstrate that doggerel can be a worthy
   art-form, requiring as much care and attention
   as "serious" poetry.

* DICK CHENEY

   I see a nursery rhyme, here- "The crooked Little
   Man With the Crooked Little Smile"

   THe goal is to contrast all the gore and blood
   of the Iraq war, against the innocence of a
    Mother Goose story, while making a statement
   about the Vice-President's stark raving madness.

* THE POETS OF GUANTANAMO

   They need help.  After all the shocking torture
   and abuse, it is also shocking that this abuse
   has not done more to stimulate their creative
   instincts.  Some of their poetry about pigeons
   is still quite lame, and in need of some
   expert assistance.

   This is your chance to demonstrate how those
   pigeons can be trained to demolish bridges,
   carry secret messages, spread deadly flu strains,
   etc, etc.   What fun is terror, if its
   imagination cannot take flight like a pigeon?

PLEASE, people - a few rhymes, a couple
stanzas, whatever you can spare.

PAY AND BENEFITS:
  What?  Are you kidding?  This is poetry,
  that we are talking about. Get real.


Tom Keske


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