judy prince wrote:
> Gotcha, Ken! I mean, I NEVER woulda guest it, not never! Poets
> should charge for this service---of explaining what the hell their
> pomes mean---thereby making enuff cash to pay for, uh, yeah, ok,
> forgit this . .
Is it steady? Are there medical benefits? Do I get a company car and
expensive account? I figure that for slinging that kind of junk I
oughta get no more nor less than a life insurance salesman can ask for.
> Howsomever, let's bring our intellects back to the kernel most
> meaningful to moi and my sis/bro POMES FER DUMMIES classmates: 1) Y
> don't poets know what their pomes mean? and 2) well, if U
> adequately answer #1, then U don't need me to pose #2.
I don't feel badly about this anymore--that I don't know what the hell
most poems "mean." They mean something to me, they may mean something
else to you, or him, or her. I THINK (bad practice) most poems want me
to engage with them imaginatively. My imagination, not the writer's.
If we meet each other, awesome. If not, we'll always have Paris:-).
> I've been watching you a long time, K, at least a month now, and I
> think you can well handle that one question.
This is starting to sound like a song by The Police. "I'll Be Watching
You"? I"m getting paranoid.:-)
Ken <on the lam>
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