*A Cat Speaks Out*
Just in case you haven't heard
A cat pronounce it I say "Merde!"
Perhaps you should just hear it twice.
Well, very well, this cat says "Scheiss."
Which isn't twice. Well, sing Goddamn
A forlorn Kitty's what I am.
Alluding to both Pound and Keats
And offering you these kitty treats.
Friend, you have not larks nor linnets
When all it takes is just five minutes
To write a poem just as fine
Omitting that quite awful line
Which makes it, really, somewhat better
And makes this cat say "Donnerwetter!
Is this the promised end or what?
Q.V. Pope on Arbuthnot.
On 11/27/07, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Apologies for line wraps if any, a text performance of 4'33:
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> "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be
> beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you
> discover that there is no reason." --John Cage.
>
> Roger
>
> On Nov 27, 2007 4:22 PM, joe green <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > And to that I say:
> >
> > Souls of poets dead and gone
> > Be sure to keep your condoms on.
> > Be advised your lissome muse
> > Won't be as prankish as she used.
> > And though, perhaps, your stiffened chillness
> > Will seem to some a formal stillness
> > And the worm your daily wage is:
> > You'll still be better than John Cage is.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 11/27/07, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > > "I have nothing to say / and I am saying it / and that is poetry / as
> I
> > > needed it" --John Cage
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> >
> >
> > --
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