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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. > > But some lines seem a little awkward to me, even as i follow through… > > Doug > On Dec 2, 2014, at 3:37 PM, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Diane is a very good poet who offers period online prompts. I picked up on this one. Don't know why. >> >> DIANE LOCKWARD'S PROMPT >> >> 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, >> >> 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. >> > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress). > Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). > > that we are only > as we find out we are > > Charles Olson