I find the three following lines particularly shrewd:
Poetry knows the president is lying, but
Poetry loves smoke and mirrors so
Poetry doesn't care, admiring an audacity
On Jan 15, 2008 3:11 AM, Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Poetry sucks on a dime when it's thirsty.
> Poetry always lies to the cops.
> Poetry makes you believe in its kiss.
> Poetry has to go outside for a smoke.
> Poetry knows the president is lying, but
> Poetry loves smoke and mirrors so
> Poetry doesn't care, admiring an audacity
> Poetry can only aspire to emulate.
> Poetry give you gasoline when you ask
> Poetry for water, so the old blues says.
> Poetry is an empty bed, a pair of old shoes.
> Poetry just loves you to death.
> Poetry spits in your beer & laughs, but
> Poetry only really cares about the truth.
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> On Jan 14, 2008 6:23 PM, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Sonnet: Poetry
> >
> > Poetry seduces the truth with lies.
> > Poetry tastes like silvery moonlight wine.
> > Poetry's losses give you extra tries.
> > Poetry's the ultimate pickup line.
> > Poetry colorizes your old life.
> > Poetry plays eternity for a sucker.
> > Poetry explains where you were to your wife.
> > Poetry's a jive-ass motherfucker.
> > Poetry laughs while you're out there mowing the lawn.
> > Poetry tosses a ruby into your grave.
> > Poetry's what's left when the poet's gone.
> > Poetry makes it easier to be brave.
> > Poetry molds roses out of breath.
> > Poetry is an argument with death.
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> > Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/joncpoetics/
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> Joseph Duemer
> Professor of Humanities
> Clarkson University
> [sharpsand.net]
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