Lip was a man who used his head.
He used it when he went to bed
With his friend's wife, and with his friend,
With either sex at either end.
*J. V. Cunningham*
Anny Ballardini wrote:
> Epicurus, Epicurean, ...
>
> On 7/29/07, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Actually, I love everything beginning with epi-,
>> including Episcopalians and epicycles.
>>
>> Hal
>>
>> "A paranoid is someone who knows a little
>> of what's going on."
>> --William S. Burroughs
>>
>> Halvard Johnson
>> ================
>> [log in to unmask]
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html
>> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
>> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
>> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html
>>
>>
>> On Jul 29, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Anny Ballardini wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I love epigrams,
>>> it seems to me that Hal's signatures are epigrams but I might be wrong
>>> as it often happens, :-(
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7/29/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> yeah not huge interest from me either; though several of these are
>>>> amusing. 'kathemeripoesis' for instance (some people throw everything
>>>> away no matter when they've written it). and 'puzzlement' should be a
>>>> couplet in a poem, though it probably works the best on its own
>>>> out of
>>>> all these. the epigram seems a pretty lifeless form, like obvious
>>>> poetry & aphorism mixed.
>>>>
>>>> KS
>>>>
>>>> On 29/07/07, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> LIFE
>>>>>
>>>>> You start out young and strong and bold
>>>>> and end up doing as you're told.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> PUZZLEMENT
>>>>>
>>>>> I sometimes cannot help but wonder
>>>>> why God doesn't speak in thunder.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> CATULLUS: ODI ET AMO [FROM THE LATIN]
>>>>>
>>>>> I hate and love: it may seem strange to you,
>>>>> but I am crucified between the two.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ANNALES VOLUSI [AFTER CATULLUS]
>>>>>
>>>>> The Volusian "Saga of Rome"
>>>>> has a place in every home,
>>>>> since "The Saga of Rome" by Volusius
>>>>> makes a wonderful wipe for your tooshius.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> CREDO [FROM THE GREEK OF CALLIMACHUS]
>>>>>
>>>>> I hate political poems. Not for me,
>>>>> the human wad that clogs the great high way.
>>>>> A love that's everyone's business? Forget it. A drink
>>>>> from the common trough? No, thanks. The public: yuck.
>>>>>
>>>>> CALLIMACHUS: HERACLEITUS
>>>>>
>>>>> The news you were gone, Heracleitus, brought me to tears:
>>>>> I remembered how many twilights we'd worn out together,
>>>>> talking the sun to his rest. And now, I suppose,
>>>>> you are nothing but dust, old friend, in your home far away.
>>>>> But your nightingales are singing, too quick for the touch
>>>>> even of death who robs us of everything.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> THE MARQUIS DE SADE
>>>>>
>>>>> The Marquis de Sade
>>>>> was decidedly odd.
>>>>> He provides some diversion
>>>>> if you share his perversion.
>>>>> Else better let be
>>>>> that appalling Marquis.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> KATHEMERIPOIESIS
>>>>>
>>>>> It's fine to write a poem a day,
>>>>> provided you throw them all away.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ARCHILOCHUS: THE SHIELD [FROM THE GREEK]
>>>>>
>>>>> Some Thracian soldier's got my shield;
>>>>> I tossed it when I ran away.
>>>>> So fuck the shield. I'll get one new
>>>>> and fight again another day.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ANOTHER VERSION:
>>>>>
>>>>> I jettisoned my gear
>>>>> when I ran from the recent strife,
>>>>> so I'm out the price of a shield:
>>>>> not much to pay for your life.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ON THE DEATH OF AN ENEMY
>>>>>
>>>>> Unjust, that this will happen to me too,
>>>>> who am so much a better man than you.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> THE CONSTRUCTION OF SEXUALITY IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
>>>>>
>>>>> An ancient Roman bard, or vates,
>>>>> highly praised his puer's nates.
>>>>> But since this poet was the doer,
>>>>> he counts as straight, unlike the puer.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> A MEDITATION
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm going to die.
>>>>> God knows why.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> SIMONIDES: EPITAPH FOR THE SPARTANS AT THERMOPYLAE [FROM THE GREEK]
>>>>>
>>>>> Stranger, report to the Spartans
>>>>> we lie here, mission accomplished.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> NONBEING [FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY]
>>>>>
>>>>> Kiss my ass, world, after I'm dead and gone.
>>>>> No reason I should care what's going on.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> ===================================
>>>>>
>>>>> Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/jgcorelis/
>>>>>
>>>>> ===================================
>>>>>
>>>>>
>
>
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Tad Richards
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