Is that the same as odi et amo?
(agreeing with you, Doug, on this of Ken’s…)
M in S
On Dec 3, 2014, at 10:33 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I think you’re in an idi et amp phase here, Ken: loving what you do eve as you hate it.
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> But some lines seem a little awkward to me, even as i follow through…
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> Doug
> On Dec 2, 2014, at 3:37 PM, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Diane is a very good poet who offers period online prompts. I picked up on this one. Don't know why.
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>> DIANE LOCKWARD'S PROMPT
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>> Describe, Diane says, something you wholly love.
>> It is an exercise and I cannot do it because
>> there is nothing anymore about which I care.
>>
>> No one loved. I am not passionate, I am gall, heartburn.
>> I am a thief who burgles better poets' lines
>> because I do not have their car keys.
>>
>> Perhaps you mean my cat? Oh, I love him,
>> he does not walk in beauty, but instead
>> like a conqueror, my crotch is his realm
>>
>> or he strides with firm prance across my desk.
>> Who am I to whine, no one at all,
>> I can wince from pain but still I'll feed him,
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>> how bad then can it be, and it is not,
>> it is travels far less tangled than my own, where
>> nothing ever happened of excitement,
>>
>> even my '67 trip to Mexico, we got laid,
>> we got drunk, smoked dope, climbed a pyramid, none of it
>> seemed to happen, for it was all lost in a fog:
>>
>> tequila and pulque and pot, and still I was too young
>> to feel what I felt or see what I saw, too dense
>> to see how I was being misshaped for my future.
>>
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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> that we are only
> as we find out we are
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> Charles Olson
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